Just wanted to share a great recipe that I made last year to create my 7 foot wolf and a wire framed bat. It's similiar to paper mache paste but easier to apply, looks like hair when it dries and is hard as a rock. Can be applied just like clay and sticks to almost everything I applied it to. It takes approx. 8 days or so dry depending on the climate and weather conditions. Keep in a dry location when allowing to dry.
Dryer Lint Clay:
1 1/2 cups dryer lint (save all dryer lint from your dryer)
1 cup cold water
1/2 cup flour
1 teaspoon of kosher salt ( the large crystal type salt)
Mix flour, water and salt until the flour is mix thoroughly. Heat over med. heat and stir with a wooden spoon continusely until the mix starts to thicken. Remove from heat and start adding in sm. amounts of lint. Continue stirring in the lint in small amounts until the flour mixture has been absorded.
The key is you want the mix moist but not soupy moist. Allow to cool for a few minutes.
I use a spatula to apply the lint to either a wire frame, PVC, foam padding or what ever you are making your shape from. I've included a few pics. of the wolf I made so you can see the look of the dryer lint clay. The grey and brown in the pictures is the parts of the wolf that I used the clay mix on.
The dryer lint clay can be painted after it is applied and dried or add color when the mix is just removed from the heat. I've used both food coloring to color the dryer lint clay as well as added acryllic paint.
Once your creation is dry you can polyurethane the dryer lint clay to help preserve it for many halloween seasons.
http://photobucket.com/albums/v193/troop134/Wolfie/
Well have fun with it and I would love to see some other pics of stuff people have made with it.
Dryer Lint Clay:
1 1/2 cups dryer lint (save all dryer lint from your dryer)
1 cup cold water
1/2 cup flour
1 teaspoon of kosher salt ( the large crystal type salt)
Mix flour, water and salt until the flour is mix thoroughly. Heat over med. heat and stir with a wooden spoon continusely until the mix starts to thicken. Remove from heat and start adding in sm. amounts of lint. Continue stirring in the lint in small amounts until the flour mixture has been absorded.
The key is you want the mix moist but not soupy moist. Allow to cool for a few minutes.
I use a spatula to apply the lint to either a wire frame, PVC, foam padding or what ever you are making your shape from. I've included a few pics. of the wolf I made so you can see the look of the dryer lint clay. The grey and brown in the pictures is the parts of the wolf that I used the clay mix on.
The dryer lint clay can be painted after it is applied and dried or add color when the mix is just removed from the heat. I've used both food coloring to color the dryer lint clay as well as added acryllic paint.
Once your creation is dry you can polyurethane the dryer lint clay to help preserve it for many halloween seasons.
http://photobucket.com/albums/v193/troop134/Wolfie/
Well have fun with it and I would love to see some other pics of stuff people have made with it.