Paper Pulp Dinosaur Chimeras

 Hello and welcome to our last Family Saturdays at Home. Today we’re going to be making a paper pulp mixture and using it to sculpt dinosaur chimeras.

You will need:

- Shredded paper

- Salt

- Flour

- A kettle

- A hand blender

If you don’t have a hand blender it might be a good idea to repeat the paper soaking process over a couple of days. You can use torn up newspaper if you don’t have shredded paper.

To make your paper pulp get a grown-up to cover the paper shreddings with boiling water and leave it overnight. After leaving it to soak for 24 hrs use the hand blender to break it up into a pulp. Make sure to get a grown-up to help you with this bit.

Next, squeeze out all the liquid from your pulp so that it looks like this and add flour until you get a mouldable dough consistency.

Design your dino chimera from parts of other dinosaurs.

Lay out your mixture and then start to sculpt, just like clay!

Leave to dry - I put cardboard under the bits that needed support and added cereal box spikes! They can take quite a while to dry but they will eventually.

I painted mine with watercolours to get a paler colour but using poster paint or acrylic works well too!

Don’t forget to share your artwork with us by tagging @aspex_takepart and using the hashtag #AspexatHome.