Paper mache--which literally income "chewed paper" in French--is a extraordinary habit for moulding amusing creatures and animals. The trick is in the balloons, and your purpose. Two lingering, thin balloons can be a dachshund. Part a humble round and a little oval balloon and you can practise a cat, a lion or a leopard. Bulky round balloons are accomplished for pigs, birds and other round-bodied creatures. Provided you're absolutely ingenious, you can twist or masking tape the balloons well-adjusted to arrange animal shapes, magical creatures or holiday characters and then appliance the paper mache to allot them forever.
Instructions
Create Fun Paper Mache Animals
1. Prepare the chore sphere. Paper mache is merry, nevertheless messy. Comprehend the table with newspaper, and hold a damp rag or paper towels handy to brush up flour blobs and sticky fingers.
2. Decide on your animal or Person. Choose the balloons you Testament itch to assemble it happen, and then blow up your balloons. Constitute the animal elsewhere of balloons by either taping or twisting the balloons cool.
3. Tear the newspaper into elongate strips. It's champion to amass them organised so they don't entertain tangled up when you're working with them.
4. Conceive the feet. Intersect the cardboard into short strips, and fold them in half. Tape two or four of these to one side of the balloon. These Testament be your animal's feet. Lay the balloon on a Apartment lodgings surface to practise positive it's balanced evenly on its legs.
Cut and shape the ears, tail and any other features from the felt, and glue them onto your animal.12. Make whiskers, antennae, tails and any other features with the pipe cleaners. Stir until you shop for a sticky batter, adding extra saturate and flour as needed. It should be the consistency of pancake or waffle batter.
6. Dip a newspaper strip into brew. Pull it between two fingers to remove the excess, then place the strip onto your balloon starting at one end of the strip, and smoothing it down so there are no air bubbles or wrinkled paper. Do this until the entire balloon and cardboard feet are covered evenly.
7. Make the neck. If you have taped or twisted balloons together, and your animal will have a neck, follow the same steps as in Step 6, stretching the strips between balloons to create the neck. But this time leave a little looseness in the strip, because you are going to be shaping it in Step 8.
8. Allow your animal to dry a bit. If you do have a neck, when the neck strips are slightly stiff, gently push or pinch them inward so that you narrow and shape the animal's neck. Don't push too hard or you may tear them. If that happens, add another strip and repeat this step.
9. Allow your animal to dry completely. Once it is dry, use the long sewing needle to pop the balloon(s).
10. Paint your animal. Make it as real or as fanciful as you please. Let the paint dry.
11.5. Mingle 1 Mug of all-purpose flour and 2 cups of baptize in the bowl. Whether it's a booming project, dash off besides.
Poke a small hole into your creature where you will attach these, push them in gently, and glue in place.
