Masks are a popular tradition in many cultures around the world includes masks of the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Mexico, Japan, Ancient Rome, Northwest Coastal Indians, New Guinea, Africa, and others.
Masks are made of varied materials including paper, cloth, grass, leather, metal, shell, and carved of wood or stone. They can be painted with symbolic designs and vivid colors. Some masks have realistic human or animal features, while others provide a grotesque appearance.
Pulp masks，instead of using plastic masks for decorating，are made from recycled paper pulp and have a smooth surface that is easy to decorate with paint, markers, crayons, or by gluing on embellishments.
Pulp masks have also some other names, Pulp Molde Mask, Molded Pulp Mask, Pulp Molding Mask, Recycled Paper Pulp Mask, Creativity Street Pulp Mask, Pulp Toy, Pulp Molded Toy, Molded Pulp Toy, Pulp Pet.
Pulp masks are ideal base for designing your own masks. These unpainted bisque masks arrive all ready to paint or decorate with paper, feathers, glitter, buttons, beads, sequins, and more. The kids will enjoy individualizing them as they apply acrylic paints, brush-on or spray glazes, or glue-on adornments (like plastic gems, feathers, or beads).These masks can also be fired after painting with glazes or underglazes. If using underglazes, be sure to use a clear gloss glaze before firing. It is is very environmental.
There are many styles of Pulp masks, male,female,cat,monkey,koala,pumpkin,clown and so on. Some masks have no style, so can be painted and designed your imagination.It is a good value for classroom mask-making projects. Encourage children’s awareness of the world’s diversity as they decorate masks in different multicultural skin tones. Kids will have fun creating self-portraits or an entirely new character.
Mask making is a fun way to learn about history and culture, express emotion, and create a character or to just let your imagination run wild.
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