papier mache

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As the center’s day camps for elementary school children began this week, science projects with papier-mache volcanoes were being built inside, using kiddie pools to contain the mess.

From Seattle Times

If P-22, the late mountain lion, was the unofficial mascot of L.A., then Pinky the papier-mâché bird was the decidedly less majestic mascot of Eagle Rock, the small, hilly neighborhood tucked on the city’s northeast boundary.

From Los Angeles Times

For Gold, the designer employed Schiaparelli signatures such as cartoonish appliques, outlandish accessories, vivid prints and even the iconic upside-down shoe hat, this time remade in papier-mâché by Marseille milliners.

From Los Angeles Times

Holding yellow flowers and rattles, the shamans walked around a papier-mache globe as they performed a cleansing ritual.

From Reuters

Dominated by the immense Douglas fir table, the room features several Chihuly “Chandeliers,” a shelf holding dozens of papier-mâché circus masks, glass “Cylinders” oriented to highlight outside light and an eight-oar shell built by the Pococks.

From Seattle Times