How to make a plate of paper in different ways

An excellent decoration of the house can be decorative dishes. How to make a plate of paper, while having a minimum of costs? You will learn further.

Materials for papier-mache

How to make a plate of paper with your own hands? Here's what you need:

• The newspaper, although ordinary sheets of paper will fit too.
• Pure white paper.
• A plate that will serve as the basis for all the work.
• Liquid glue - PVA. Or you can make a paste yourself. He needs water and flour (starch will do).
• Capacity with water.
• Oil, petroleum jelly or soap. This is so that the paper does not stick to the plate. You can do without it. But then it will be more difficult to unhook the finished article from the form.
• Materials for decoration (paints, foils, markers, stickers, beads, sequins, crystals, seashells and the like)

Technique of papier-mache

Now let's get down to practical mastering how to make a plate of paper. The materials are ready, you need:

1. Make a paste if no PVA glue was found. Proportions for paste: 1 part of flour to 8 parts of water. To do this, heat the water and gradually begin to pour in the flour, stirring to get rid of the lumps. You should get a batter that needs to be allowed to cool before use. If you are making of starch, then pour it into an aluminum or enameled bowl and add water. Stir until thick. There add boiling water, continuing to stir. Value, as with flour, 1: 8. Later, you can add a little more boiling water to make the paste older. Strain.
2. Pick up small newspaper pieces, about 2 by 5, but they do not need to be the same.
3. Lubricate the form with oil, petroleum jelly or liquid soap. Apply the first layer, dipping the pieces into the water.
4. Follow the next layers. Total of them will be about 7. The latter is made of white paper.
5. Now the plate should dry completely.
6. Gently remove it from the base with a pair of scissors or a knife.
7. Align the edges.

On the plate you can draw anything and add with stones, beads, sequins and so on (do not glue it with a very liquid glue, so that there are no stains on the paper).

Wicker plate

How to make a plate of paper with little or no glue? Materials:

• Newspapers or paper.
• PVA glue.
• Scissors.
• Sword or needle.
• Form for the plate.

What do we have to do:

1. Cut a newspaper or paper strips width of 10 centimeters, you can slightly less.
2. Screw the strips into a skewer, fix the end with glue. Skewer to get and do the same with all the paper.
3. To make the tubes longer, you need to drop the glue into the end of one and insert the other.
4. You can paint the workpieces at this stage, or when the plate is ready.
5. Now the process of weaving itself. It is necessary to take four tubes. Find their center and twist among themselves, as shown in the picture.
6. Add two tubes on one side and three on the other.
7. Take the tube from the side, where there are five, and start weaving, letting it pass under the others, then over. So in a circle.
8. When the tube is finished, use the glue to lengthen it with the remaining blanks.
9. Now we need to create a form. Take the prepared plate, put a load in it and place it on the base of the basket. The diameter of the already woven construction should be more by half a centimeter.
10. Raise the tubes, placing them along the mold, and secure the position with an elastic band.
11. The main tube to continue the weaving, each row must fit tightly to each other.
12. Finish the weaving should be, bending the ends of the protruding tubes inside the rows.
13. Now you can decorate the plate, if previously it was not done with the tubes.

Flying saucer

Children will be interested to learn how to make a flying saucer out of paper. Origami technique:

1. Cut out an even square of paper.
2. Fold in half to form the center lines.
3. Straighten once.
4. Bend one side in the middle back.
5. From the center, bend down the corners. This is done on the same side as in step 4.
6. On the other side, also pull the corners down, but not from the center.
7. Turn the paper over with the other side.
8. Procurement for a flying saucer is ready, now you can draw three windows, aliens and the like.

You learned about different methods of how to make a plate of paper!