Paper Mache Bowl
Here's What To Do
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With your child, make the paper mache paste, whisk until consistency is similar to pancake batter:
- 1 cup flour
- 2 parts water
- 1 tablespoon salt
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Tear newspaper or tissue paper into strips about 2" wide.
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Place a bowl upside-down on a baking sheet (to catch drips). Help your child dip a newspaper strip into the paste, then lay it across the bowl, which is your mold. Continue placing strips until the entire bowl is covered. Let dry overnight.
4
Remove your bowl from the mold. Let your child decorate the bowl with paint or markers.
Put PEER Into Action
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Pause:
- Take a deep breath in and out together.
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Engage:
- Let your child help with mixing the paper mache recipe.
- Ask your child, “what kind of colors, lines, shapes, and patterns can you paint on your bowl”?
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Encourage:
- Assist where needed, but try to let your child do as much as they can independently.
- Compliment your child's patience for completing all the steps of this project!
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Reflect:
- Talk with your child about how you worked together as a team to make art.
Not quite ready?
Make a paper mache collage- brush the mache glue on top of tissue paper on a flat piece of paper.
Ready for more?
Use a balloon as your paper mache mold.
As your child masters this skill...
They will experiment with a new type of art making, and work together with someone else to make a sculpture.