big letters

I was reading Making magazine and saw a lovely idea for using up odds & ends of wool. They had taken a cardboard letter and wrapped wool around it using only a glue gun. It looked really effective so I bought some letters and a glue gun and decided to give it a go.

Except that my children were horrified by the idea of a wool letter and wanted a comic one instead.

So out came the papier mache skills once again or decoupage if you are a grown up!

I bought a plain cardboard letter for £2

Marvel comics I bought a job lot on ebay which was much cheaper £5 for 5 comics

I used pva glue which I watered down to about 50:50

 Then just got gluing 

Here is Jacob's finished Incredible Hulk

My nephew Ben's Bash St Kids

My nephew Jakes Dennis the Menace

And nephew Joseph's Banana man

I quite liked the gluing and it was very quick & effective so I went to town a bit on my niece Orla's letter

I had lots of pink tissue paper

Found some ribbons and my butterfly cutter

In fact I think I got a bit carried away but she is 5 and totally loved it.

I still have to do Comic ones for my other 2 boys and may manage to sneak a wool one in somewhere around the house.....