Paper Mache Recipe Instructions:

Crafts Easy For Kids:

How To Make An Animal Mask

Our paper mache recipe has been tried and tested on all our homeschool model projects and proved to work brilliantly for crafts easy for kids.

Our paper mache recipe paste instructions are perfect to use as a simple way to create an animal mask.

We'll show you:

• Two alternative ways to make paper mache paste - our homeschool recipe is eco-friendly!
• Step by step instructions for how to make a lion mask
• Ideas for other fun craft projects to try

Once you know the recipe instructions for how to make paper mache paste, you can use it for all sorts of homeschooling crafts easy for kids.

Mustafa animal mask was a great hit with William and Catherine in our homeschool, as you can see from the bottom photo where Catherine is peeping out from underneath him!

How To Paper Mache

You'll need to know our easy homeschool recipe instructions for how to make paper mache paste but that's fun too. When we were homeschooling, William and Catherine loved the squidgy feeling of the paste recipe on their fingers. So long as you've put a tablecloth down you can all have fun together. With homeschool crafts easy for kids it's definitely the more mess the merrier!

If your children love animals you've got a great way to show them how much fun homeschooling crafts for kids can be.

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How To Make Paper Mache Instructions

I have the simplest homeschool paper mache recipe instructions you could wish that makes crafts easy for kids almost free and definitely fun.

TOP TIP: The instructions for this homeschool paste paper mache recipe are exactly the same as you would learn how to make a white sauce, using water instead of milk.

• Measure out a mug of flour and 3 mugs of water.




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• In a saucepan, mix a small amount of the water with the flour and stir to make a smooth paste.
• Stir over a low heat. Add the rest of the water to the recipe slowly, adding small amounts at a time, heating and stirring to make the paste come smooth.
• When the paste comes to the boil, turn the heat down and let the paper mache recipe simmer until the paste thickens.
• Your homeschooling paper mache recipe is ready when the paste is smooth and the same consistency as you would pour over your vegetables.
• Done! The ideal paste recipe instructions to use with lots of homeschool crafts easy for kids.

Here are more ways you can use to make homeschooling paper mache paste recipes:

Alternative Recipe Instructions for Paper Mache Paste

Other books showing how to make crafts easy for kids follow different recipe instructions to make paper mache paste. Here are the two main suggestions:

1. Wallpaper paste without fungicide.
2. Watered down PVA glue.

Personally, I prefer the eco-friendly homeschooling instructions showing you how to make paper mache paste for all sorts of easy kids paper mache projects.

Instructions For How To Make A Paper Mache Mask

To make the homeschool lion animal mask you need to make a cardboard frame.

• Make a hoop out of a strip of cardboard stuck together that fits round the circumference of your child's head. Secure with sticky tape.
• Add strips of cardboard to go over the top of your child's head. They are the 'ribs' and you'll cover the gaps with paper mache newspaper. Attach to the base circle.
• An easy way to make ears is to use two egg box compartments and stick them on your cardboard frame. Or you can get your kids to learn how to make two semi-circles from card and stick them down.
• The nose for the animal mask comes from a bent piece of flat cardboard.

Paper Mache Instructions For Your Animal Mask

Now's your chance for the kids to get stuck in. You'll have a very basic frame to cover with paper mache. Don't worry how simple it is; so long as your homeschool animal mask has ears and a nose you can't go too far wrong.

• Tear up strips of newspaper and cover them in a layer of the paper mache paste made from following our homeschool recipe instructions.
• Add two layers of paper mache over the whole cardboard frame, covering the gaps and all the cardboard. Leave to dry.
• Keep adding layers, varying the thickness according to the look of your animal mask.

You can see from the picture William and Catherine loved the easy crafts side of learning how to make an animal mask. Once your mask is dry, you can use it as a way to start learning homeschooling art techniques.

Homeschooling kids crafts are great to learn how to make different colors by paint mixing. The easy recipe my two used involved adding large amounts of red and yellow to make a striking orange - perfect for a lion animal mask.

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Finishing Touches for Your Homeschool Kids Crafts

Paper mache projects are perfect for kids because you don't have to be a careful painter to create a great effect. So long as your kids can splatter paint in the general direction of the animal mask you'll get a good background color for your art activities.

You can add black homeschool whiskers from pipe cleaners stuck through the paper mache animal mask.

Strips of gold card make great homeschool manes. If you want to know how to make them curl, roll the card round a pencil.

Cut out eyeholes to fit with your child's head.

If you want to know how to make the eyes so lion-like, the answer is gold glitter paint. The pupils are holes in the animal mask or, from time to time, the whites of Catherine's eyes peeping through!

Make A Homeschool Bird Animal Mask

Free Craft Activities For Kids

Learning how to make a homeschooling animal mask is easy. You can follow our instructions for how to make masks using paper plates to create a fantastic bird. All the instructions for how to make them are in our homeschooling easy craft activities for kids.

Mustafa animal mask is just one of the projects which makes homeschooling crafts easy for kids; you could make a cardboard frame for your child's favorite animal - a shark or a cat - and add a homeschool costume to go with it.

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Our homeschool paper mache paste recipe instructions are ideal to use for all sorts of crafts easy for kids. If you blow up a long thin balloon, brush on some paste from our paper mache recipe and add strips of newspaper you'll make a snake. We made a homeschool coral snake with a red felt forked tongue.

Timmy the crocodile was another one of our homeschooling crafts paper mache projects. He came from a long cardboard box covered in paper mache; William and Catherine took him down to feed him breakfast at the table every morning.

Our homeschooling Salt Dough Recipe is also great for easy kids crafts. Come and see how to make play fruit, key rings and fridge magnets.

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Paper mache projects open up all sorts of opportunities for crafts easy for kids; there's something even better about painting in three dimensions and our paste recipe is so good you can nearly eat it!

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