Each of us in childhood at labor lessons in the manufacture of a variety of crafts used a paste, which each mother cooked and poured into a small jar. And now it's time for us to make sure that the child performs applications with safe and high-quality material. How to weld a paste for children's creativity? This topic is revealed in the article. Here, readers are presented with a flour paste recipe for applications and the creation of products using the papier-mâché technique. In the second part of the article, you can read the instructions for preparing a similar adhesive mass from potato starch. Study the information and choose the paste option that suits you. A quality result for you.
Flour paste. Recipe and step by step instructions
Method number 1. Sift wheat or rye flour (a quarter of a large glass) through a fine sieve and mix with cold water (200 grams) in a bowl. Pour 1 liter of water into a pot with a thick bottom and heat. Then introduce flour kneading and mix well. Put the container on low heat. Cook the mass for three to four minutes, remove from the stove and let cool, periodically stirring. That's all. Then use the paste as intended.
Method number 2 - recipe paste, prepared in a water bath. In a bowl, mix 1 liter of water and 4 large tablespoons of flour. Place a vessel with this mass in a large pot of hot water, thus organizing a water bath. Bring the paste to a boil, pour another 200 grams of water into it and boil for about 5 minutes. Cool the glue in a cool place.
The paste recipe presented above contains only natural ingredients, so you can store it in a warm place for no more than one day, after which it spoils, acquiring an unpleasant odor and changing its texture. If after work some amount of this material remains, try to keep it in the refrigerator. But this method will help save glue no longer than a day or two. It is better to cook the paste in small portions at a time.
Starch paste. Recipe
Measure 10 large spoons of water into a glass. In a separate saucepan, dilute 1 large spoonful of potato starch with a portion of water from a glass. The solution should, by consistency, resemble sour cream. Stir until all lumps disappear. Boil the remaining water and pour in a thin stream into a vessel with starchy mass, stirring it. If this amount of liquid is not enough and the glue is thick - add a few more tablespoons of boiling water.
It is important to know that starch paste is used in a warm form. Such material is stored for no more than five hours. Therefore, it is impossible to harvest it for the future. During cooling, a film forms on the surface of the adhesive. Try not to get it on the product or ruin its appearance.
Now you know the recipe for paste (and not one), which performs its function well and is absolutely harmless to the child. And it’s not scary if a little fidget gets dirty in this material at the time of needlework. It is easily washed off clothes and washed off the body. Let creativity be a joy for children!