Papier-Mache for Kids

by Sheila McGraw

Overview

Step-by-step, easy instructions show how to make pigs, cats, masks, monsters and more. Eight great projects in all! Everyone has the basic ingredients for papier-mâché around the house - newspaper, flour and water - and everyone can do this creative, satisfying craft that allows you to build big, small, crazy and decorative sculpture.

More than 150 color pictures guide you through the steps and show lots of variations on the results. Try it - it's fun!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780920668931
Publisher:	Firefly Books, Limited
Publication date:	10/01/1991
Pages:	72
Product dimensions:	8.25(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)
Age Range:	8 - 11 Years

About the Author

Sheila McGraw is author of Painting and Decorating Furniture, Papier Mâché Today, Gifts Kids Can Make, Dolls Kids Can Make, and Soft Toys to Sew. She is the illustrator of the best-selling children's books Love You Forever, and Lightning Bug Thunder as well as author/illustrator of Pussycats Everywhere.

Table of Contents

• What is Papier-Mâché?
• What Does It Look Like?
• How Long Does It Take?
• What Do You Need?
• How Messy Is It?
• How Do You Do It?
• How to Use This Book?

• Vases
• Bangles
• Masks
• Archnamania
• Piggy Party
• Yipers! Vipers!
• Fat Cats
• Monsters

• Painting Papier-Mâché
• Sponge Painting
• Découpage
• Potato Printing
• Pulp
• Baker's Clay
• Add-ons

Editorial Reviews

Following on the heels of her successful Papier-Mache Today, Sheila McGraw has presented us with another book of papier-mache projects. All the projects in Papier-Mache for Kids are easy enough for a child to construct. Papier-Mache for Kids follows the same well-organized format as her previous book. Colour photographs accompany each of the numbered instructions. Each project lists the materials that are needed and has a box that gives the basics of papier mache. A table of contents is provided... If you are looking for a papier mache project to do with youngsters, Papier-Mache for Kids is the book for you. The projects are simple enough for a child to construct, but so delightful as to become cherished curios.

Canadian Review of Materials - Joanne Robertson