How to make a paper plate in different ways

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

Decorative tableware can be an excellent home decoration. How to make a plate out of paper, while having a minimum of costs? Learn more.

Papier-mache supplies

How to make a paper plate with your own hands? Here's what you need:

• Newspaper, although regular sheets of paper will do.
• Blank white paper.
• A plate that will serve as the basis for all the time.
• Liquid glue - PVA. Or you can make your own paste. It needs water and flour (starch will do).
• Water container.
• Oil, vaseline or soap. This is to keep the paper from sticking to the plate. You can do without it. But then it will be more difficult to unhook the finished craft from the mold.
• Materials for decoration (paints, foil, markers, stickers, beads, sequins, rhinestones, shells, etc.)

Papier-mache technique

Now let's get down to the practical development of how to make a paper plate. Materials are ready, you need:

1. Make a paste if notfound PVA glue. Proportions for the paste: 1 part flour to 8 parts water. To do this, heat the water and gradually begin to pour flour into it, stirring to get rid of lumps. You should get a batter that needs to be allowed to cool before using. If you are making from starch, then pour it into an aluminum or enameled bowl and add water. Stir until you get a thick mass. Add boiling water to it while continuing to stir. The ratio, as with flour, is 1: 8. Later, you can add a little more boiling water to make the paste thinner. Strain.
2. Tear small pieces of newspaper, about 2 by 5, but they don't have to be the same.
3. Lubricate the mold with oil, petroleum jelly or liquid soap. Apply the first coat by dipping the pieces in water.
4. Subsequent layers stick. There will be about 7 of them in total. The last one is made of white paper.
5. The plate should now be completely dry.
6. Carefully detach it from the base with scissors or a knife.
7. Trim the edges.

You can draw anything on the plate and add stones, beads, sequins and so on (it is better to stick with not very liquid glue so that there are no streaks on the paper).

Wicker plate

How to make a paper plate with little or no glue? Materials:

• Newspapers or paper.
• PVA glue.
• Scissors.
• Skewer or knitting needle.
• Plate shape.

What to do:

1. Cut the newspaper eitherpaper in strips 10 centimeters wide, a little less.
2. Wind the strips on a skewer, fix the end with glue. Get the skewer and do the same with all the paper.
3. To make the tubes longer, you need to drop glue at the end of one and insert another.
4. You can color the blanks at this stage, or when the plate is ready.
5. Now the process of weaving itself. You need to take four tubes. Find their center and interlace with each other, as shown in the figure.



6. Add two straws on one side and three on the other.



7. Take the tube from the side, where there are five of them, and start weaving, passing it under the others, then over. So in a circle.



8. When the tube ends, use glue to lengthen it with the rest of the blanks.
9. Now we need to create a form. Take the prepared plate, put a load on it and place it on the base of the basket. The diameter of the already woven structure should be more than half a centimeter.
10. Raise the tubes up, placing them along the form, and secure the position with an elastic band.
11. Continue weaving with the main tube, each row should fit snugly against each other.
12. You need to complete the weaving by bending the ends of the protruding tubes inward between the rows.



13. Now you can decorate the plate if you haven't done it before withstraws.

Flying saucer

Children will be interested to learn how to make a flying saucer out of paper. Origami technique:

1. Cut out an even square from paper.
2. Fold twice in half to mark the center lines.
3. Unbend once.
4. Flip one side back in the middle.
5. Bend the corners down from the center. This is done on the same side as in step 4.
6. On the other side, also fold the corners down, but not from the center.
7. Turn the paper over.
8. The blank for the flying saucer is ready, now you can draw three windows, aliens and the like.

You have learned different methods of how to make a paper plate!