The Crafeteria: paper mache

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Day 17. Now It's Your Turn!

Wednesday is here, and it's time again to check out what you've been up to lately.

Remember? You pin your pictures to the Pinterest Group Board, get views from hundreds of followers and maybe even get to be featured here next week.

How to pin your photos to the group board?

1. Follow me on Pinterest
2. Leave a comment, here or on any of my Pinterest pins, with your Pinterest user name.
3. I'll follow you back
4. I'll send you an invite
5. Accept the invite
6. Start pinning!

Begginers, here's a detailed explanation:
- You have to follow me on Pinterest (and I have to follow you), because these are Pinterest's rules for group boards. If the board admin wants to invite people to the pin to the board, they have to follow each other. You can only follow one of my boards, btw.
- You don't have to be bloggers. As long as your pictures are somewhere around the WWW, you're good. Flickr, Picasaweb, Instagram etc. are all fine.
- Your pin doesn't have to be a tutorial. As long as it can be an inspiration to someone, that's fine.
- If you have a non-English blog, that's OK. These days, with Google Translate, we can just translate the page to another language.

All right then, shall we see today's features?

Let's start with a fellow Israeli, Stav from Shlishkalach. She made ah-mazing papier mache' chicken. Her blog, by the way, is really awsome. Lots of beautiful scrap and papier mache' works.

Papier Mache' Chicken From Shlishkalach

Allie from The Random Crafter with an easy tutorial for a burlap wreath, love it!

Burlap Wreath Tutorial From The Random Crafter

Look at this beautiful Tricky Tabbed TP Album from Craft Cravings. Can you believe it is made of... toilet paper rolls?!

Tricky Tabbed TP Album by Craft Cravings

If you were featured, feel free to grab a button!

That's it for today, now go and pin your best works into the board!

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

The Story of the Three Bears

My kids love recycling. They've heard about it so many times in kindergarten, so now they won't let me throw away anything... Plastic bottles we throw to the recycling bins, of course, but this time we decided to give them new lives instead. Three bottles, in different sizes and shapes, turned happily into three bears that helped us tell the story of Goldilocks (who's not so goldi in our case, more like Brownilocks...) and the Three Bears.

Want to have them too? It's super easy (and fun!)

3 bottles, different sizes
newspaper
white glue
water
wallpaper paste
paint (acrylic, gouache)

using papier-mache to turn three bottles into three bears

Take three bottles, all in different sizes.

Cut away their top third

Now we'll make the glue that we'll use for the papier-mache:
Thoroughly mix 1 tbsp. wallpaper paste with 1 cup water. Add 1 tbsp. white glue, and let rest for 10-15 min.

Meanwhile cut newspaper strips...

Then start to glue the strips to the bottles, try to make it even (although when I work with the kids, I try to avoid helping them. I just explain what to do, and then let them try themselves).