Paper Mâché with Kids // Ice Cream Sundaes
In that location is always a very strong reaction from the kids when we do paper mâché. Some kids love it — i hateful actually love it — and others do not want to become that oozy stuff on their hands. But all of them say "ewww!!" the whole time they are working! Information technology'southward quite funny actually, how the feel and olfactory property and sight of the paste gives them all such a visceral reaction. I dearest it. Information technology's why I keep doing paper mâché because it uses all of the senses (yes — they taste it, too)!
This time, nosotros made ice-cream sundaes. Information technology was a fantastic, multi-pace projection that they couldn't wait to work on each time they came back to class. The funny matter was, they all wanted to give them to their dads. There must be something almost ice cream that reminded them of dad (could information technology be that dad's water ice-cream sneaking is not so sneaky after all?). Ha!
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Supplies:
~ Cereal boxes
~ Masking tape
~ Tin can foil (light weight)
~ Newspaper cut into strips
~ Newspaper mâché paste (flour and water)
~ Tempera paint
~ Colored paper
~ Elmer's glue
~ Red pom-poms
Process:
i. Make the ice-foam dish from a cereal box. Cut information technology like the cartoon above, folding in the sides and taping them with masking tape. Mine were about vii″ – 8″ in length and about 1.5″ high.
2. Crumple upwards some tin foil into assurance. This part was super fun for them, they could take simply done this all day!
2. For the paste, I mixed flour with water using an electric mixer. I made it resemble pancake concoction. The kids dipped their newspaper strip, then used two finger (one on each side of the strip) to duster off the excess paste.
three. They covered their dishes start, then the ice-cream scoops. It's hard to brand the newspaper stick to the can foil at first. They needed help with this part. It simply takes a bigger hand to mush information technology all in. Once a few pieces were on then they could do the rest. They covered them until you couldn't encounter any more tin foil. Afterward the kids left, I went dorsum and squeezed whatever excess paste out of the ice-cream scoops and made sure the paper was a polish as possible.
iv. Let the paper mâché dry out for a day or longer (it needs to exist 100% difficult and crusty, or else mold could develop). We dried ours for a week, until the adjacent class.
5. Once dry, it was time to paint! We talked most their favorite flavors during the kickoff class, so I mixed some of those colors.
vi. My biggest surprise for them was the chocolate syrup! Information technology was tempera paint in squeeze bottles
7. The finishing touches were sprinkles and cherries. I brought out the mucilage for the cherries simply to make sure they would exist secure.
They came back on the third class, and…voilà! Their ice cream was done and ready to serve to daddy. They all decided that they were going to put them in the freezer and fob them into thinking it was existent. Ha! I love 4-year olds.
One thing nosotros had talked about doing was making whipped cream. They really, actually wanted to put whipped foam around their scoops. So on mean solar day three, when all the everything was dry, I quickly whipped up a batch of white stuff (cornstarch and h2o) and they stuffed it in their dishes. I didn't actually take expert pictures of this considering it all happened so fast (and my fingers were covered in cornstarch). But I also thought of using cotton wool balls, white tissue paper, or white model magic.
We love making water ice-cream art!!
xo, Bar
{PS: Here is some other paper-thin water ice-cream projection we did final year.}
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