LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD : Page 51

You will need flour, water, salt, newspaper, a prepared head shape and some kind of stand to hold the head upright. For this you can use a store spindle, a three-inch stick thrust into a platform of modeling clay, a small board with a big nail driven through it—anything that will hold the head in position so that you can work on it from all sides.

Prepare a head shape by securing a tight wad of paper around a neck tube with string or paper tape as shown—by fixing a neck tube to a small rubber ball as was suggested with Baldy Ball (No. 31), or by fixing a neck tube to a toilet tissue tube, as with Miss Muffet (No. 17). Place the head shape in position on the stand. Cut the newspaper into strips of a quarter inch to an inch wide. Pour water into the flour, mixing slowly, until you have a paste about the consistency of thick soup. Mix in a teaspoon of salt. Select one of the wider strips and drag it through the paste, squeezing off the excess between your thumb and forefinger but making sure there is a thin coating of paste on both sides. Lay this around the head shape. Soak another strip with paste and lay it on. Cover the head gradually, making sure the strips overlap at all points and cover it entirely. Add another layer.