Welcome to my first foray into paper mâché since high school art class.
My brother asked for my help with a Christmas present for our dad. The challenge: creatively wrapping a small bottle of Pig's Nose whiskey, in addition to six other little whisky nips, he picked up since moving to Scotland. The obvious decision was clearly a paper mache pig. #Duh
Inspired by this blog post over at Lil Blue Boo that I had pinned to my Pinterest page a while back, we used the same flour-water mixture the author (Ashley!) recommended.
Step 1, blow up the balloon. Step 2, cut a cardboard wrapping paper roll into ears, feet and a snout. The feet were about 1.5", snout measured in at 1/2" and the ears... well they were big. As pig's ears are. Step 3, tape the cardboard pieces onto the balloon (very carefully).
Once you have the "outline" of the pig, prepare the mixture. The Lil Blue Boo post recommended 1 part flour to 4 parts water, which worked beautifully, as did using strips of paper towels rather than newspaper.
Once the body parts are in place, step 4 is dipping the paper towel strips into the mixture and laying them on the pig. Step 5, continue placing the strips on the pig until you have your desired thickness. We stopped after three layers, mostly because we were worried that it wouldn't dry in time (8 hours until Christmas morning).
While we had originally hoped to pop the balloon, cut out a hole and place the whiskies inside, our drying time limitation forced us to get creative around how to "hide" the whiskies. Rather than put them directly inside of the pig, we decided to make a "fence" to surround the pig in question.
Last step, cut another wrapping paper roll into equal tubes that could act as "fence posts" and cover them in strips of mixture covered paper towels. Easy peazy.
The final result was cute and not too shabby for something on such a tight deadline. Next time I would love to paint it and create something more structurally sound so we could put the whiskies inside of the pig. But by hiding the little bottles underneath the little tubes, my dad ended up looking like the cat from this Cinderella scene.
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