Materials and Tools Needed
- Cereal box cardboard or scrap cardboard from recyclables
- A pencil, a pen, an eraser
- Scissors and/or an X-Acto blade (for finer details)
- A glue gun and backup glue sticks
- Paper towels- the more the better, at least ¼ of a roll
- Elmer's glue (optional)
- A mannequin head (helps but optional)
- Misc. acrylic craft paints (gold and dark yellow)
- White priming acrylic paint
- Mod Podge (matte OR gloss/ spray OR liquid)
- A ruler or measuring tape
- A mixing spoon
- Masking tape
- A measuring cup
- A bowl for mixing papier mache mix
- All purpose flour
- Salt
- Water
- An oven or blow dryer (for speeding up drying times)
- If using an oven, a nonstick baking sheet
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• Step one is to break down a box and lay it down flat to prepare for step 3.
• Using a measuring tape or piece of string and a ruler, determine the circumference of your head. In my case, 21.5 inches, which is the average skull size and the measurement of the mannequin head's circumference.
• (step 3)When you're done, measure out about 21.5 inches on your cereal box cardboard. If your box is a little smaller, don't fret, you can always glue on additions. My box was only 18" long and it worked out great.
• Cut off any excess cardboard from the "base" of your crown.
• Take a pencil and map out the middle of your crown, this will help you decide where the spires go depending on the style of crown you work with.
• Draw the design of your crown out. I used simple classic peaks and valleys.
• Cut it out.
• Using a toothpaste box, I measured out a strip flush with the width of the ends of the crown. This is to make up for the 3.5 inches missing from the overall length of the design.
• Apply hot glue then adhere the pieces together.
• Using the mannequin head, I wrapped the crown around to see how much excess toothpaste box cardboard I'd need to trim off then marked the point I wished to trim.
• Trim excess and glue remaining strip to other side of crown. You should have a full circular crown now.
• I double-secured where I glued in the toothpaste box cardboard with masking tape just to be safe.
• This part is up to you, but the crown effect won't really be achieved unless the entire thing has peaks all around. I used a piece of scrap cardboard discarded from the original drawing to create the missing spike.
• Fix up the edges and glue the final spike in place using the hot glue gun.
 Okay, You are doing great! Let's paper mache this crown! Let's continue with the tutorial
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