Make Beautiful Sculptures and Masks with Paper Mache and Paper Mache Clay
Click the yellow button above to see my easy patterns for paper mache sculptures and masks.
- Create beautiful gifts and decorative sculptures for your home.
- Or quickly create professional-looking headdress masks for your local production of the Lion King play or a Vacation Bible School event.
The patterns make it easy, even if you’ve never made anything with paper mache before.
Latest Paper Mache Tutorials:
Is Paper Mache Clay Waterproof?
Is paper mache clay waterproof? This video tells you why it isn’t, but also gives some tips so you can use your paper mache clay sculptures outside anyway – at least for awhile.
Zazu Headdress Mask Pattern for the Lion King Jr. Play
This pattern for a Zazu headdress mask creates all the shapes for you, and painting it is really fun. It will look stunning on stage in the Lion King Jr. Play.
Make a Paper Mache Dog – A Basset Hound
This video series shows how to make a paper mache Basset hound, using the free downloadable pattern. In this post we put the armature pattern together.
Jonni’s Sculpting Books
Paper mache recipes.
You can find all the traditional paper mache paste recipes on this site, plus my famous paper mache clay recipe (and several new variations). You can always find the recipe you’re looking for under the Recipes link at the tip of the site.
Or download my free booklet, The 5 Best Recipes for Paper Mache.
Your Host.
I’m Jonni Good, the creator of this site and the author of several best-selling sculpting books on amazon.com. You’ll find me on the Daily Sculptors page almost every day, along with many other friendly and supportive folks who love creating beautiful things with this exciting medium. Be sure to drop by and say “hi.” We’d love to meet you.
Masks and Sculptures Made by Our Readers:
I am looking for adult size mask patterns on otter, martin, deer, moose, eagle, crane, elk, fish, beaver, Linx, all wild animals of Ontario except squirrels, mice, rabbits,
Hi Marie. I haven’t made mask patterns for any of those animals yet. I have a deer sculpture pattern, but it is intended to be displayed on the wall. I hope to make an eagle this year, though. Good luck finding what you need.