Papermache fun

During summer holidays I decided to engage kids in some craft work. Thought of making a name board for house as we did not have one and settled on papermache work. 

Pen Stand by recycling Floppies

Made a pen stand from using old, discarded floppies yesterday. Used three floppies as three sides and put a hard cardboard as base.

(You can see print on the floppy on the inner side).
After I joined all four pieces, 'C' stuck paper strips using papermache technique. Then gave two thin coats of glue. 'C' did base colouring and I drew warli figures on it. Finally gave three more coats of glue.
Here is the final product.

Shalini
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Papermache Babushka doll

We (me and 'C') had made a papermache babushka doll long time back but somehow did not post it.
Here it is:

Used a balloon as base for papermache and added one cardboard ring as the bottom to let it stand. Though I could not draw nice features ('C' says it looks somewhat angry), we still love it.



Shalini

Linking this to : Colours Dekor the weekly Story

We Won............

again in Artsy-Craftsy April @ mindful Meanderings. Here is my entry- papermache Elephant.

This months theme is Thermocol. Just hop over to Shruti's place and participate.

Papermache Elephant mask

It feels good to be blogging after a lonnnnnggggggg forced break. We shifted to a new house and could not get our trusted Internet connection transfered. So I took a cable broadband connection. But my bad luck, it gave me more panic than comfort. Everytime I wanted to work, it was not working. 3 months have passed and finally now I believe I'll get my old connection by tomorrow.Better late than never.

In the meantime I did lots of craft but that i'll post later. First I'll post my Papermache Elephant. We made it for Shruti's Artsy-Crafty but could not post it on time.

I used paper plates, paper strips, newspaper and diluted Fevicol for doing this. I pasted two pieces of paper plate(cut in half) on both sides of another plate. Rolled one newspaper like trunk and secured it in place with tape. Then we pasted paper strips dipped in diluted adhesive on it. I did two layers and then kept it for drying. After 5-6hrs. I cut two eye shapes on top side. Then we (most of it Shreyash did) painted it. After painting, I pasted wrapping paper as decorations. We can use it as a mask or it can be hung from wall by attaching a thread on the back side.

Swati Shruti is doing great job organising these monthly contests. Kudos to her. I wish her all the best.

Shalini