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1. Mapping the World Learning map skills can be a fun way to learn about the world. There are many hands-on learning experiences that lead to true understanding of the world, it's countries, political divisions and the ways that countries are divided up into states and p...
2. How to cast a plaster mold for paper mache puppet heads, hands, and feet. Jeimy and I are trying our hand at a method of puppet-head construction we saw in an online tutorial: we are modeling heads from plasticene, casting them in plaster of paris, and then lining the molds with papier mache. Neither of us has done this b...
3. Punch and Judy I decided to create some Punch pages because I love the song John Pole wrote about the show. Bob Vasile and I sang it on our recent album We Did It! Songs of People Behaving Badly." You can hear our version, and read Pole's lyrics, below. Pole is, hi...
4. Make a Mexican mask for Halloween: "La Llorona" Since my mentee Jeimy is Mexican, I thought it would be fun to make another spooky Mexican mask for Halloween. This one is inspired by the story of "La Llorona," who killed her own children and now wanders the earth dressed in white and cry...
5. Make Your Own Pensieve - Harry Potter Props Dumbledore's Pensieve is used extensively in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince when Dumbledore takes Harry on a tour of the memories of his and other people's encounters with the young Tom Riddle, who would grow to become Lord Voldemort. One of...
6. Instructions for making a giant puppet and an "El Tigre" head I learned so much at the recent workshop given by Donovan Zimmerman of the Paperhand Puppet Intervention and Mark Donley of the Hillsborough Arts council that I was inspired to come home and continue the giant puppet project. In this lens I'd li...
7. The giant head masks of painter Jane Filer Jane Filer, an extraordinary local painter, was kind enough to let me visit her studio when she was getting ready to make a new giant head. She modeled some of the heads, let me peer inside, and got to work with her paper mache while I took pictures....
8. The Coolest Papercraft Ever Origami. Kirigami. Paper airplanes. Papier mache. Papermaking. Scrapbooking. Making paper, and making things out of paper; that's what this lens will be about.  As you probably can tell, paperfolding may be my favorite! (origami crane image cour...
9. Dollhouse Dolls Antique and Vintage Collecting dollhouse dolls doesn't mean you have to collect dollhouses, you can make room size arrangements on shelves or in shadow boxes to hang on the wall. There are so many to choose from although good quality antique dollhouse dolls are no...
10. How to make puppets large and small, and masks This "space alien soft ventriloquists' dummy" puppet welcomes you to my collection of information about making creepy puppets - big ones, small ones (particularly from the Punch and Judy show) - and masks. I love paper mache and that's the common...
11. Crafting A Christmas Village, Make Your Own Holiday Town Welcome to my lens and some of the projects I have been working on and how they are made.  Discover how I design various items for the different seasons and well getting to see some of the design work we do for clients. You can find ou...
12. Papier-Mache Papier mache is a way of making objects from paper. Either paper strips and glue or paper pulp to which is added some type of glue or paste. You can make small objects or very large objects. The cute fellow on the right measures about 3 feet to the t...
13. Arts & Crafts   Actually, its crafts that help me keep my sanity (as I am homebound with a very sick mother). I went to the Manhattan School of Printing (now closed) in the shadow of the WTC. Silkscreening and Photo-Offset were the courses I took there, and I...