A complicated one...

PAPIER MACHE

Are you ready to make a mess? This is one we used to do most summers at Camp Nottene. Papier Maché! You can see it’s another old picture (my kids are not so little anymore), but that just means its a classic and you can’t go wrong.

It’s pretty simple, and you can google strict directions if that’s your way, but we just mix flour and water in a pan on the stove until it gets a bit gluey and then bring it to the big messy table in the studio with lots and lots of newspaper strips that the girls rip up. For the forms to go under the wet paper strips, we use balloons, toilet paper tubes, or any other lightweight disposable item we can think of. You dip the strips in the gluey water, run them through your fingers to get off the excess glue, and drape or wrap them on the structure. Ours usually feel like they take forever to dry, but should only be a day or two, then you can paint them or draw on them once they are hard! Make creatures and then they can play with them for hours afterwards (until they break!)