Papier Mache (Step-by-Step Children's Crafts) - Softcover

Balchin, Judy

9780855329129: Papier Mache (Step-by-Step Children's Crafts)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0855329122 ISBN 13: 9780855329129

Publisher: Search Press, 2001

Learn how to make papier m�ch� bowls, boxes, frames and more. The basic techniques are followed by nine easy step-by-step projects with adult supervision boxes which indicate where help is needed. Templates are included - and further ideas to inspire you to create more objects.

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About the Author:

Judy Balchin is a designer of book jackets, television titles, and craft kits and runs workshops in silk painting, glass painting, and porcelain painting. She has also contributed numerous articles to craft magazines.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 3-6-Both of these books will delight young crafters. The projects are interesting, easy to make, useful, and decorative. A two-page spread gives the basic tools and materials needed. Children are warned to ask for adult help when necessary. Procedures are clearly delineated by numbers within colored circles. Potentially unfamiliar words appear in bold type and are defined in the glossary. The back of each book has patterns that can be reproduced. Papier M?ch? describes two basic techniques: using paper strips and using paper pulp. The crafts were inspired by various cultures, and include a picture frame with a Mogul Indian motif, a Latin-American Carnival headdress, a Mexican bowl, a cat reminiscent of the Egyptian goddess Bastet, an Aztec jewelry set, and an African pencil pot painted to look like kente cloth. Explanations of more sophisticated techniques, such as using molds, are imbedded in the projects themselves. Clay Modeling uses air-drying clay to make a cat, a tiger, a flower pot, a bowl, and more, although the models can be created with traditional clay if the child has access to a kiln. The general techniques section clearly describes and illustrates methods of pinching out shapes, coiling, rolling clay, using a pattern for flat shapes, using cookie cutters, creating textures, attaching and joining pieces, drying, and painting with acrylics and poster paints.
Lynda Ritterman, Atco Elementary School, NJ
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