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Paper Mash

Paper Mash. Making teaching aids with material that costs nothing while teaching waste management and recycling by Melanie Tamnjong , UNAFAS CVP, Cameroon. Watch the film. Items needed. 1. Used papers of the same quality e.g. typing sheets or newspapers or papers from exercise books

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Paper Mash

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  1. Paper Mash Making teaching aids with material that costs nothing while teaching waste management and recycling by MelanieTamnjong, UNAFAS CVP, Cameroon

  2. Watch the film

  3. Items needed • 1. Used papers of the same quality e.g. typing sheets or newspapers or papers from exercise books • 2. A bowl • 3. Clean water • 4. A pair of scissors • 5. Used/new cotton bolls (tips) • 6. Pieces of chalk (remains from used chalk) • 7. A flat surface e.g. a tray • 8. Mortar and pistle • 9. Grinding stone • 10. Small tins/corks

  4. Procedure (1) Tear or cut papers into small pieces (e.g 4cm sq) Put papers into a bowl and pour in clean water to cover papers like you do with soaked clothes Allow papers in water for at least 10 hours Remove papers from water Rub papers between hands like washing clothes, to mash them, or pound papers in mortar Cover a tray with dry paper Spread mash on tray to produce any object you want and have a desired thickness and design of your choice

  5. Procedure (2) • Put object in the sun to get dry. This can take 3 or more days depending on the intensity of the sun • Grind the chalk on stone to be smooth • Put chalk into containers/corks and put in a bit of water • Mix so that the mixture looks like paint or coloured water • Dip cotton balls (tips) into mixture and paint object with your desired colour. • Allow object in the sun to get dry

  6. Note - Object produced must not be put into water because main raw material used is paper. - It will fall apart if it gets wet. - Handle object with care else it may easily break.

  7. Answers to some common questions we have been asked • Question 1: What if object is produced on a rainy day? - Answer 1: Keep object in a safe place until the sun begins to shine then you can dry the object. - Answer 2: If you live in an area where people use ovens often e.g cocoa producing areas, when they have finished drying their cocoa put in your object to get dry.

  8. Question 2: I have a very big class (more than 60 students) how possible is it for me to work with them using paper mash. Answer: Very possible and easier. Produce one object with some students taking active participation in its production, then put students in groups and ask them to make their own.

  9. Question 3: Do you use gum (glue) in the production process? Answer: No! Gum once put into water becomes weak and useless. Some methods add flour and water to make the product stronger, but we found it wasn’t necessary.

  10. Question 4: I am a religious knowledge/science teacher (chemistry, physics, biology) how can this paper mash be useful to me? Answer 1: In religious knowledge you can write important declarations, memory verses and warnings using paper mash. Answer 2: In Biology most diagrams can be made using paper mash e.g fish, toad, reptiles and mammals including parts of the human body like the heart and the skull. - In chemistry we can produce and present shapes e.g cube when talking about cubic chloride, hexagon when talking about hexagonal crystals. - It would be interesting to know that in a physics class of about 25 students 5 did not know what solids are. Any object produced with paper mash is solid. - In mathematics fractions can be taught using objects produced from paper mash.

  11. Question 5: I work in the domestic science section of my school. How can paper mash be useful? • Answer: There is a lot of decoration done in the domestic sciences. We can use paper mash to do decoration on the walls and corners of our houses‐we can label different objects in the domestic science room e.g kitchen utensils, drinking pail, laundry equipment.

  12. Question 6: Can we use different kinds of paper? Answer: No, because they would not get soft at the same time.

  13. General Remarks Paper mash can be used for general decoration at home or in school. We could use it to make known our wishes to people e.g “You are welcome to our home” “You are welcome to our school” Paper mash could also be used to indicate directions in building e.g an administrative building could have the following sign boards made from paper mash “Office” “Secretariat”, “Principal” “Boy’s Toilet” “Girl’s toilet”

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