how do you make a mask by sticking stuff on a balloon?

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scotchick · 31/08/2006 14:00

I did this last year for halloween, and stuck newspapers round a balloon and spread glue all over it. But it took loads of glue (expensive).

Is it sugared water you can use, or is that for something else?

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Iklboo · 31/08/2006 14:01

Flour & water paste - just trial & error until you get it thick enough (I think about 2:1) or wallpaper paste does OK too

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scotchick · 31/08/2006 14:03

Aha! Thanks!

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scotlou · 31/08/2006 14:03

here you go - there's even a recipe for the paste !

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scotchick · 31/08/2006 14:07

how helpful people are on mumsnet! Thanks, I've bookmarked that page for when I'm ready to tackle it! Am making a werewolf costume for halloween (not for me obviously)

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Iklboo · 31/08/2006 14:08

Aw - why NOT you scotchick?

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scotchick · 31/08/2006 14:13

Because I'm going as VELMA!!!

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Iklboo · 31/08/2006 14:15

Cool. We're (DH & me) thinking of going to a fancy dress party in a couple of wees as ABBA - all of them! Me half Benny, half Annifrid, him half Bjorn, half Agneta

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scotchick · 31/08/2006 14:17

Wow, how fabulous! What a great idea. Are you buying different wigs and halving them? I'm trying to picture what I would do.

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Iklboo · 31/08/2006 14:21

We're lucky we've got a friend who does hair & makeup for former theatre group & he's doing them for us. I think he's got 2 long wigs - 1 brown/red and 1 blonde and he's going to cut one half of each into the bloke style and do the other half of each in the woman style.
Not sure how we're going to do the clothes yet though!

TitianRed · 31/08/2006 14:35

Easier than papier-mache is 'mod-roc' which you can get from art and craft places (it's basically bandages dipped in plaster of Paris - you wet it and apply it over a balloon).

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