One way to use your well-read copies of the Goldstream B次元官网网址 Gazette is to use them for an art project and give them a second life.

Terri Rodstrom, a director at Coast Collective, said making art out of papier-m芒ch茅 is easy, fun and a great way to use old newspapers.

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For a school production of The Lion King at Lakewood elementary school, Rodstrom helped to make masks for the actors and she chose to make them out of papier-m芒ch茅. She created all sorts of animals, such as hyenas and lions, using a bicycle helmet as a base and cardboard or chicken wire as the structure for the papier-m芒ch茅.

To make papier-m芒ch茅, take a small amount of water, add a little flour and mix them together into a sticky paste. You then cut or shred newspaper into one-inch strips. Dip the newspaper strips into the paste one at a time, and apply them to whatever base structure youB次元官网网址檝e built.

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Rodstrom said many high-end artists, and especially sculptors, will use papier-m芒ch茅 to try out an idea before going on to use bronze or whatever medium it is they work in.

Pi帽atas are also made out of papier-m芒ch茅 and are great for parties. You fill a balloon with candy, blow it up and apply papier-m芒ch茅 around the balloon in the shape of an animal, like a fish or a pig.

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n Metchosin organic farmer Dieter Eisenhawer saves his seeds from each harvest. He uses a fermenting process to clean them and then dries them on old issues of the Goldstream B次元官网网址 Gazette.