How to make a Golden Goblet

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After choosing this book by Judy Balchin at our local library M looked through it and choose to make a golden goblet.

We started by constructing the shape of the goblet. We cut a plastic bottle in half, discarding the bottom half. We used masking tape to attach a cardboard circle to the top of the bottle. We then turned it upside down, this gave us the shape.

We ripped up a lot of newspaper into tiny pieces and added mixture of PVA glue and water. We let it soak for about 30 minutes and then squeezed out the excess water. We then used this paper mâché to cover the goblet.

When the paper mâché had dried M used an acrylic gold paint to cover the inside and outside of the goblet.

When this had dried it was time to stick on the glass beads. We initially tried sticking these on with glue dots, but they kept falling off. We then used a combination of Evo Stik and super glue which seemed to work well.

Having written down the process it seems very straight forward and I’m not really sure why it took months to complete this project. Waiting between each stage meant that the process couldn’t be completed all in one day and many weeks lapsed between each stage!

M was very pleased with the final outcome. Now it’s time to get finishing some of those other projects we have lying around the house!

What projects have you undertaken with or without children that lasted way too long? I’d love to hear about them.

Thanks for reading

Sarah 🙂

17 thoughts on “How to make a Golden Goblet”

  4. That is one craft I have never tried with my boys. I don’t have fond memories of paper mache from school and I have been trying to avoid it. Looks like he had a lot of fun!

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