Papier-mâché ideas: Unleash your creativity
If you’ve always wanted to try crafting with papier-mâché but never actually learnt the basics, this how-to guide on papier-mâché ideas is exactly what you need to get started.
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Papier-mâché ideas: Unleash your creativity
If you’ve always wanted to try crafting with papier-mâché but never actually learnt the basics, this how-to guide on papier-mâché ideas is exactly what you need to get started.
Papier-mâché, sometimes spelled paper mache, is one of those DIY craft techniques many of us have heard about, but never actually tried. The pulped paper itself – simply strips of paper bonded together by a glue paste – is very easy to make, and once you’ve mastered the basics, the sky really is the limit when it comes to papier-mâché ideas.
Before you can let your papier-mâché ideas run wild, you need to learn its two basic fundamentals. Fear not, as these are simple to get to grips with.
Rather than tearing one strip at a time, you can tear of multiple strips by placing around six to eight newspaper pages on top of each other. Newspaper has a grain that, if you tear with it, will produce nice, straight strips. A width of one inch works well with most projects.
Now you know how to create your glue paste and paper strips, you’re ready to learn how to create papier-mâché using a balloon as a mold. This can then be used as a basis for papier-mâché ideas for animals, papier-mâché ideas for Halloween, papier-mâché ideas for Christmas and many more.
Using paint and other accessories, you can now turn your papier-mâché balloon into anything from a hot air balloon or Halloween pumpkin to an Easter bunny or egg. Alternatively, you can place the strips on a sort of skeleton made of wire mesh and create casts for any object you can think of.