Paper Mache Recipe
Take 1 cup of water. Mix in 1/4 cup flour until it is thin and runny. Stir into 5 cups of lightly boiling water. Boil for 2-3 minutes gently. Let it cool down before you use it, don't want you to get burned.
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Newspaper
Bowl of water
Nylon Stocking
1/4 c. dry wallpaper paste
1 c. water
Mixing bowl
Tear newspaper into strips. Soak newspaper in water overnight. Pour soaked paper into stocking and wring out. Place paper into bowl. In seperate bowl, mix smooth paste of wallpaper paste and water. Pour some paste over the paper and work it in with your hands, little by little until the paper mache feels like clay. Work around art objects (like a chicken wird frame). This takes a few days to dry...
Showing posts with label Greece - Arts Crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greece - Arts Crafts. Show all posts
Friday, June 1, 2007
Clay Project
The bottle you use for the clay project will not come out . . . sorry! You could just have your kids form their own vase, bottle, or pot if you can't find a bottle that is the right size or shape for all of your kids. If you do use the bottle, you have to use air-hardening clay, though. Don't bake the clay and the bottle.
I have not had great luck in baking any kind of clay without it cracking, in large projects, that is. The best baking clay I have seen is the Sculpey modeling compound - which doesn't crack when you bake it unless it is a really large object. My friend, Robin, teaches elementary school art and this is what she uses and loves. If you don't use the bottle, you can go ahead and bake your Sculpey vases/pots. In fact, you HAVE to bake it or it won't dry (we tried this and about 5 years later we have a model of a Mesopotamian Ziggurat that is STILL soft!)
Regarding the color, you have seen the reddish colored pots and vases in your books on ancient Greece. I don't know why you couldn't just use any light colored clay and paint it a terra cotta color after it has dried. Then paint a design with black after the terra cotta is completely dry.
I am sure others will help you out in reference to where they got their clay, but if you don't have an arts/crafts store near you, the S & S Worldwide catalog carries clay, as well as all sorts of other WONDERFUL things for homeschooling moms.
S & S Worldwide
PO Box 513
Colchester, CT 06415-0513
1-800-243-9232
http://www.snswwide.com
Dorian
I have not had great luck in baking any kind of clay without it cracking, in large projects, that is. The best baking clay I have seen is the Sculpey modeling compound - which doesn't crack when you bake it unless it is a really large object. My friend, Robin, teaches elementary school art and this is what she uses and loves. If you don't use the bottle, you can go ahead and bake your Sculpey vases/pots. In fact, you HAVE to bake it or it won't dry (we tried this and about 5 years later we have a model of a Mesopotamian Ziggurat that is STILL soft!)
Regarding the color, you have seen the reddish colored pots and vases in your books on ancient Greece. I don't know why you couldn't just use any light colored clay and paint it a terra cotta color after it has dried. Then paint a design with black after the terra cotta is completely dry.
I am sure others will help you out in reference to where they got their clay, but if you don't have an arts/crafts store near you, the S & S Worldwide catalog carries clay, as well as all sorts of other WONDERFUL things for homeschooling moms.
S & S Worldwide
PO Box 513
Colchester, CT 06415-0513
1-800-243-9232
http://www.snswwide.com
Dorian
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