Making masks

Some of that is chocolate :o)

You will need:

Face cream

Plaster bandage - gipsbandage in Danish, which you can buy at the chemist (Apotek) for about 25 kr for 2 metres

Scissors

Elastic or elastic bands

Paints 

Water so make the plaster go mushy

I can't remember what that big bit of paper is in the middle, possibly the wrapper off the bandage...but I'm going to call it 'face tissue' because that would have been useful.

 Careful with the scissors...

Useful tip:

Don't start with the youngest child.
Start with the oldest so the little ones can see what is coming

First Julie put the face cream on
to stop the plaster sticking to Jake's face for ever.

Then I cut sections of bandage and Julie
dipped them in the water and applied them to Jake's face
 one at a time overlapping.

That was when Jake realised he has upside-down underpants
on his head because we couldn't find a hairband :O). Clean ones.

The sections were about this size but smaller over the nose.

Nearly done...

Laura's turn now!

Cream first. Ooh it's cold

But it doesn't hurt...unless you get hair mixed up in it.

 All done

 By that time, it wasn't toooooo long before Jake's mask
had dried out enough to take it off. Check carefully first though.

Oh it feels stiff.

Laura's mask left a funny butterfly shape. But it all came off with face cream.

Now Julie tidied up around the edges and the eyeholes.

And it was time to paint them pretty colours.

We used oil paints that dissolved in water.
All except the red, which didn't and got everywhere.

Rainbows.

Ready to dry again.

...near the stove but not too near.

When they were totally dry, even the red, we carefully
poked holes near the eyeholes with a skewer... Not too close to the edges though.

...and as we didn't have any elastic, we joined up elastic bands to make the straps. 

And then they were ready to wear.
Clever kids and thank you, Julie!

It would be easy to make a spiderman, 

tiger or just colourful mask.