if you ever had one of those really crazy weeks well that was kind of the week i had and i said we got to get messy tonight so i said what is something that's really messy and fun and maybe even ties in with coming into the hollow season and it seemed like paper mach might be the way to go we have a drop cloth we're prepared and we're going to see what will happen here with paper mach and lucas is going to be on our cam in a minute but he  agreed to be model for our mask you know a lot of things you can do take from the shape i didn't even know that paper michel in french actually means chewed paper and i don't know whether people cheered up or it just looks like it's chewed and we're going to do a really basic paper machine i think this is not this is sort of our julia child show it's not going to be as messy as more as a pan i promise lucas was very brave we pan and i think the drawback was the powdered sugar was that the problem yeah well we put yeah we put a lot of powdered sugar it is and it kept flying and and yet it never we've been the more powdered sugar you put in is still wasn't sticking others well important powdered sugar gets wet it's bad now when florida gets wet that's pretty bad but the powdered sugar was what we'll see what's going to happen tonight all one of the recipes that i found online talked about blending it up with him with hand mixer which i have i don't know what what made me go on with that there are a lot of ways that you can make a mask one is a balloon if you've ever done that in school ok i did all right can you blow  all right now she is going to be a death star for hollowing and so she has gotten a large beach ball and is putting paper mach all over it then she will deflate that and have here and well do you want to be here for the mixing up of this do you want to be so kosher i'll go ahead and do that on different recipes what they said was two cups of we got this all right you want to and we're taking about how many three or four layers of tenth well yeah and the reason i'm going to do it more if you're not going to be afraid if this doesn't seem to work we will then move over to the balloon now the balloon technique you'll watch this you're going to get to get the camera going to here and there well and as it was suggested you tear up the strips ahead of time which is a nice way to do with with this so because once you get your hands in this wonderful potion you can't really you know what this is i think as i always point out with art and when we make hard as an art therapist i always know that different different projects and different materials trigger all sorts of unconscious things and i realize that i've had a lot of fun with paper mach but i do remember in the second grade i had some type of harp this templar had us make birds and we made birds out of paper mach and of course i brought it home and showed it to my mother and that was great and then a week or so later his temper said you know we're going to we have to have the birds for a display the parents are coming in or whatever was going to happen and of course my mother had tossed out this burg i know walker had my birth but what i remember was that my mother must've stayed up most of the night and probably used a hair dryer and she made another bird for me as only my rather we did and i remember the bird was blue and had a yellow beak so  it's a very good memory of a paper mach i think of knowing that my mother came through i've got to get this right now your eyes are appearing i think oh mom turn around i don't know write oh gosh this is so wonderfully messy life said we were going to make a mess and we are and i will confess that this is something that i have not we have not experimented with i have a feeling when martha stewart does something she has actually done it several times and knows exactly what's going to happen but i'll make heart feel better we like to talk about improvisation and the creative process and that we never know quite what we're doing with it so this show we're definitely proving that we will just see what happens now i find some some children and some people don't like to get their hands messy and i don't know what all the deep psychological things are about that sometimes i've worked with children with clients and gotten plastic gloves and let them work and that's good too that's fine you know they're just different reasons some people are a little bit and get more upset when they get their hands messy and they don't realize that they can wash them off  now i don't know who ok we got something going here i don't know whether it's going to be a mask what is that scary scary movie where the guy i've never watched it but i know about he has the  scouts and don't i found out working with cub scouts was the messier the material the better they behaved if if a project isn't messy they really get out of control but if i learned the hard way as a cub scout den mother it was it was quite a challenge but i got a whistle but that didn't work but i found that if you got some kind of wild they like so what happens with this yes once it dries you pop the balloon and then you end up with up with up with a mask and it's recommended that you put about three layers on for paper mach have to really end up with something that's got some body to it once it dr and they did i remember now this is coming back to me once you start getting this the the paper mach on this it starts getting the balloon gets heavy on one side but that's ok you just keep working with it and it doesn't matter you just kind of roll it around i would recommend if people get in the paper michel you might want to do a show of garage or outside because i can see already and if you had children working on this it could get kind of wild sort of a sign of the times this morning when i was trying to get its newspapers i don't currently subscribe and i started asking people and you know newspapers are a little harder to find these days i guess now that we are much more digital i found i was actually is carrying around it was recycling day in belmont and so i grabbed a few that people had but i didn't have him oh that's looking very good that's going to be good mass and i'm going to get a couple more layers on this so that when it dries there again i am having fun and i think that's what this is about it's also a very it is quite therapeutic it feels really wonderful to play in this mess it so and to run is that you're actually making something that's going to be fun and pretty  i brought some wire because another thing you could do with paper mach is i always talk about armature while anybody's watched the show frequently i have armature wire here an armature wire the name comes because it is the foundation of of a sculpture and in so there we go there oh that looks pretty good i like that when a little old without one and i'm going to come back to lucas as master and as blow and that and this does happen so when you want these to dry you have to kind of find a place to prop them up and so they don't roll over on the heavy side and i'm going to prop that one up right here and then i'm going to continue working on lucas just mass a little bit lucas i don't know about this and have to do a lot of work here but we're going to what is going to happen is on this show because we've got an art project that takes a little bit longer you know it's looking sort of just like a  ball maybe this isn't quite coming out but i'm going to keep playing with it see what's going to happen here and then we're going to in a minute or so  then he i always laughs about it he said it's no longer the magic of television because everybody knows what we're doing but we're going to come back and all these beautiful things are going to be dried and then we're going to paint them and finish decorating them this is not quite working with a ten for all i miss something some part of the design something has spec but i'm not going to say it's not working because art always works and we're going to keep sculpturing on it here and see what we come up with i am having fun i knew that ok there's the nose but you were willing to put this on your face again i think the bloom is going to give us a little more of a form i just didn't get enough of a thing around here bring on around me and of course i have enough mixed up here that we could really we could probably make twenty masks for those that are following the two cup recipe makes a lot of paper machete it's perfect all that's going to be nice but i'm going to keep working here only because this mask because i want him to be pleased with this and he may want to wear it when he goes trick or treating so we will check back with you as we are painting well we're back fast forward about two days and we're back in our painting studio and our paper mach mask has dried i in all of fairness i must say that while i was working after we stopped shooting on the show while we were making it the only two things i did i did cheat a little bit this is not exactly lucas's nose and all i did boy i cut a piece of cardboard and i formed from a paper cup actually just one like this and i've been on those and then i put this on here and i use a paper machine kind of built it up the other thing i did was i poked through the two i holes here and just kind of showed the paper mach back so that it would dry and then i just let it sit and it is dried pretty nicely still just a little damp there but it actually is working and we're going to  little bit of painting here and decorating just to have some fun with the mask this is our balloon mask here now this is going to be we're going to get this one time i'm going to get up here because this will be sort of the exciting part of the taking if it works hold on oh it's rolling away on me in the move this mass just for a second i've got a needle here and after you build on a balloon what you do is you pop the balloon ok and let's see what and there we go we now have a mask and it is shaped this way and you can see that you can do a little bit cutting on it if you want to shape your masters the way you want it to we're going to work on the more on lucas's mask right here but this there we go and the balloon will come out just like that and you have a mask probably could be a little bit thicker but it worked i don't know where i think we of this seemed like it was very primitive to me and so i got some colors here that looked exciting and it was just a little possess we got some go i love these paints because they're all different colors  bit of my mother as i reported on her pay from a shady work for my pawn the bird that i had for school i brought some of her special feathers my mother collected all sorts of things and she collected feathers and so part of my inheritance from my mother her these beautiful feathers and somehow i just when i saw them at home i said you know  get some feathers and try them on a ma and i like that and because i would like this to be even more festive talk about making a little business but will be careful i know some people are very see how we're going to get the feathers on i'm kind of into this feather i don't even know what this feather is but my mother has had that for probably who knows forty fifty years and there's