For the second layer, you’ll use packing paper and white glue. You need to use the paper out of your bag or discover one thing much less stiff and barely thinner. Please ask your mother and father to supply the white glue. A small (4 fluid oz) bottle of Elmer’s Glue-All from someplace like Cease and Store might be excellent. When you’ve got faculty glue at residence you possibly can attempt utilizing that as a substitute, however needless to say faculty glue is just not as robust as white glue.
You’ll need to discover a piece of cardboard to guard your work floor if you are spreading glue over the items of paper. Don’t use the cardboard supplied within the bag! That’s for the arms. Additionally, you will want a flat brush with stiff bristles, about half an inch extensive, to unfold the glue on the paper, and, lastly, two small cups or plastic containers, just like the small ones within the image that some hummus got here in.
Squeeze a number of spoonfuls of glue into the primary container, and fill the second with water.
Rip off a bit of paper. Crumple it up so it loses its stiffness. For curved surfaces, you’ll need smaller items, and for flat areas you may use greater ones. Put a small piece of paper on the cardboard defending your work floor and unfold the glue over it with the comb. It doesn’t have to be a thick layer of glue, however it ought to cowl your entire piece. Then unfold some glue over the a part of the top the place you can be putting the paper. Stick the paper to the top. Urgent the paper in opposition to the froth together with your fingers, squeeze out the surplus glue from beneath the paper. You need it to stay tightly to the froth. To forestall getting the paper caught to you, hold your fingers moist and slippery by dipping them within the water.
After you end masking the chosen a part of the top (or your entire head, if that’s what you’re doing) go away it to dry. When it’s dry repeat the entire course of including another layer of paper tape and another layer of papier-mâché. Once more, let it dry. Drying time will differ, however you’ll most likely have to attend about two to a few hours every time.
