Easter project

 I've switched out my header photo for a few days to show you a little project you could make with the kids/grandkids. Some of them are mice made from blown eggs covered in paper pulp. They were given googly eyes and tails made from crochet cotton. The paper pulp was made from brown paper that came in an Amazon package. The round balls are widgets from beer cans but I have also on different occasions used the plastic roller balls that you get in deodorant bottles., I covered them in the same paper pulp. They are a nice base for a project and I've made them in loads of different colours when I was going through my 'paper pulp' patch. Coloured scraps of paper were soaked in water and then whizzed up in my blender to form a pulp. You don't need any glue for this as the paper pulp tightens as it dries and forms a hard skin on the object that you have covered. You could paint them with acrylic paint but in truth I would just use coloured paper. PVA glue makes a great varnish if you want them to be shiny. I also made some creepy looking heads which I turned into maracas, and a fox and a bear using the same technique.. The possibilities are endless.

Blown eggs and paper pulp. Painted with acrylic paint.

I made paper mache bowls and used the different coloured broken eggshells like mini mosaic to cover the bowls. Again, design possibilities are endless and as you can see it cost nothing but a bit of glue.