How To Paper Mache - FLOUR VS GLUE 📍 How To With Kristin

hey guys it's Kristin so in today's video I'm gonna not only show you how to do paper mache but I'm gonna show you two different recipes that you can use I've seen a lot of different variations of recipes online and I've tested a few of them and the two that I'm going to show you are the best ones that I found make sure you guys stay to the end because I'm going to show you a couple things not to do and I'm also going to show you projects that you can do with paper mache because you might be like well who does that anymore unless you're like in kindergarten but there's actually a lot of fun things you can do with this so wait to the end to check those out for this first recipe we're going to be using flour so what you'll need is one cup of flour one cup of warm water 1/2 a tablespoon of salt and then a fork or spoon or maybe a mixer just anything to mix around your ingredients then you also need a dish a pan just something to put it in I recommend something you can just throw away after so we'll start by adding in the flour now I do recommend if you can try to break up some of these clumps before you add the water in it will help a little bit and now I'm gonna add in the warm water so I'm just gonna do a little bit maybe 1/2 mix it around and then we'll add the other half it makes it just a little easier to mix it and you don't feel worried about splashing everywhere so it should be really thick and pasty at first and I'm already getting flour everywhere so now we're gonna add the other half in alright so I'm gonna just mix this up and they'll come back to you guys because this is gonna take a minute or two just to get fully mixed alright so I've got this mix up pretty well there is a few clumps in here so do your best to get the clumps out now we're gonna take the salt and just sprinkle this on top here now you might be asking why salt really it just helps preserve your project and keeps it from getting moldy so this is the consistency it should be it should run off your fork if you hold your fork or spoon up and it just gets stuck you do not have enough water make sure before you start this project you have your strips of newspaper cut and ready to go because sometimes the glue mixture and the flour mixture can start hardening up and thickening up very quickly so having that ready to go is going to be much better for all right so now I've got all my stuff ready to go I do recommend getting some sort of a bowl because it's gonna be easier to place your balloon inside of it to hold it in place all right so I'm just gonna take my strip of paper and kind of just place it right in there not too much and you can see it's gonna be very thick so what I'm gonna do is just kind of run my finger over to get some off and then use that same finger to just kind of wipe it on the back just make sure both sides are completely covered with your mixture now when you first place this on here the balloon is gonna be weighted so it's gonna want to fall over like that so you're just gonna have to kind of hold it with one or let it fall there we go got a balance perfect so now I'm gonna dunk the next one in there and it's just because it's falling over because the weight right balloons are pretty much weightless and then we're putting this a heavy thick stuff on it so I'll put another one on this side just to kind of even the weight out and then what I like to do is smooth it out so I don't know if you could see there's like some bumps there just make sure it's smooth out like that so now I'm just gonna continue and we're gonna get the whole thing covered as you're applying the newspaper after you do maybe you know I don't know five ten strips you may want to rinse your hands off because what's gonna start happening is the board you use the flour mixture or the glue it's gonna start getting a buildup on your hands and your hands are gonna get really sticky which is gonna be harder for you to like grab the newspaper and keep applying it it's just your hands and everything will start sticking to each other so it does help if you can rinse your hands off a few times while you're applying the newspaper all right so I got everything covered you definitely want to look it over and make sure you don't see any of the color so that mines like a bright green if I see anything even if it's covered but I can still see the green it's most likely not thick enough so put another piece of paper over it now for our second option and we're going to be using glue so what you'll want to do is have one cup of glue or two of these bottles a half a cup of warm water and then one teaspoon of salt and then again a fork a spoon or mix or something like that and then we'll also need some sort of bowl or dish to mix it around to make the glue mixture we're gonna start by adding in 1 cup of glue or two of these containers now we're going to add our warm and now we'll start mixing this around so again this is gonna take a few minutes so I'm gonna get all of this mixed and then I'll show you what the next step is all right so I've got this all mixed up and it should be kind of a creamy consistency so you can see it still looks like glue but it's like watery glue so if this looks more translucent where it looks more like water you don't have enough glue in here so it should just look like very soupy glue and now we're gonna add our salt in and we'll mix that around all right now as I mentioned earlier in the video I'm you might see a lot of recipes online where the glue to water ratio is equal so like one cup of each or two cups of each when I tested this it did not work for me it was way too watery so I don't recommend that particular recipe we're gonna do the same thing with that we're gonna just stick the paper in there and then I'm just gonna wipe it down a little bit make sure it's on both sides no you will notice that this is gonna be much more watery than when you do the flour mixture the mixture with flour is gonna be very thick it's like if you've ever made dough this is gonna be a lot more watery so it's a little bit you're some people have that as a preference because it goes on a little bit easier your hands will get sticky though just like it did with the flour so you will probably have to do a little rinse off here and there but we're just gonna cover the whole balloon and then I'll be right back with you you are going to want to make sure you do two to three layers of the newspaper when using the glue mixture all right so I've done multiple layers I did about total of three layers on this balloon so now all we have to do is set this aside somewhere and let it dry for at least 24 hours now when you're letting these dry you can either let them sit in a dish like this the only downside is you will have to rotate this probably once an hour because what will happen is all the glue will start going to the bottom and it could get stuck also it may leave a circular indentation along the bottom of your paper mache project so you will want to keep rotating these if you're gonna leave them in a dish the other option you have is to take some string and then we're going to tie it around the of the balloon and hang it somewhere alright so here I've hung these in our garage just off this table and that way I don't have to worry about them sitting in a dish rotating them I can just leave them here for anywhere from 24 to 48 hours and then we'll come back and check on them now you are gonna want to put down some newspaper and more specifically for the balloon with the glue mixture because it will fall to the bottom and start dripping so this is about an hour to two hours after and you can see there's a puddle of glue so this is exactly why you would want to make sure you have a newspaper put down alright so I've got both of my balloons completely dried it's been almost 48 hours so we're gonna test and see how these turned out I do notice right off the bat this one with the flower does seem a little more firm it can't really push on it too much there's a little bit of slack but on this one it's a little more flexible I guess is the word but let's cut it open and see what we've got we'll do the flower one first alright so I'm gonna start the flower 1 we'll just cut the balloon so it's kind of like I can feel it deflating inside if you can hear it so you can cut see in there the balloon completely deflated and it's just kind of sitting in there so as far as the mache I feel like it held up really well I feel like this is pretty firm it's not really collapsing or anything so I think it turned out really good let's do the other one we'll do the same thing I'll just kind of cut the side here and then I'm gonna try to cut some of this back a little bit I can kind of hear it coming off alright so with this one I don't know if you can see it the like coloration on it do you see how the inside looks like green that is because the balloon did not pull back you guys can't see what I'm doing I'm trying to pull the balloon off there that came off alright now as far as this one goes this does actually feel pretty firm if you know whatever project you were doing this would definitely work the insides really smooth so I think as far as the paper mache part goes they both turned out really good so just a couple quick pros and cons regarding each recipe so I did notice with the flour mixture it was a little thicker and it was more sticky and a little Messier to apply but I only had to apply one layer of newspaper it does have a little bit of a rough texture to it so that could affect when you're painting it and stuff but on the other side it is a lot more firm so it's gonna be probably more durable now with the glue recipe it was much easier to mix and to apply it was a lot more watery and I didn't get as much of it all over my hands and it was a lot easier to use the downside is I did have to apply three layers so it took a lot more time it does have a much smoother surface there isn't a lot of rough edges or anything like that and I don't know if this is a pro or con but it is a little more flexible so if you're looking for something like that that might be a pro but if you're not then it could be a con both of these pretty much had the exact same drying time so that's not really a factor at all and you can see that the one with the flower is much lighter so that could actually work as a primer as well so it's really going to come down to you know what type of project are you doing and what's going to be best for you but I do recommend the two recipes that I've listed in the video description alright guys so that's it for today's video I hope you liked it and if you did please give me a thumbs up also if you're new to my channel don't forget to subscribe and then hit this Bell so you're alerted when I upload a video I'll talk to you later

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Length: 11min 1sec (661 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 20 2019