Hi Mic! I'm guessing you want this for Halloween? Try some stiff foam from a local hobby store or Walmart. Depending on how realistic you want them, you could plaster them with strips of newspaper coated in gesso or a thinner glue mixture. Or even shred the news paper in small pieces and soak it over night, put it in a colander and squeeze out the excess water and add your Gesso or glue mixture and cover it with your paper mache. Once dry, you'll have a a nice stiff surface to paint. You could sponge paint it to make it look moldy or covered in lichen, or just a simple distressed look. Print or paint whatever you are planning, with a light bit of sponging or painting on your lettering.
To stand them up, use two dowel rods of wood and carefully make two holes in the bottom of your tomb stones. (about 6" to 8") Take the dowel rods out and dip or paint them with you glue mixture and let it set overnight with the dowel rods in the foam. Use another dowel to press into the ground, or find something like a few garden rocks, and maybe a potted plant that is wilted to hold it up.
Good luck and let us know how it goes! Google Youtube for any tutorial for paper mache or just fake tomb stones. I'm sure someone has this project down pat!
I saw the answer to this question on Hometalk, just this past week. So just type it in and look it up. It looked like a very easy project, just using rectangle cake pans and bagged cement. Good luck
You can use MDF board, or ply wood, even cardboard. If you use cardboard and want it thicker just draw out the shape you're wanting and trace it onto a few pieces and cut them all out, glue them together (I'd recommend using a strong sturdy glue rather than hot glue alone, if you use hot glue also use a second type to give it more strength like E6000 or UHU) once they are stuck together and the glue has dried and it's been painted/decorated how you want put a sealant over the whole thing so it lasts.
You can also use Styrofoam. If you use Styrofoam and want to paint it, it's very pourus and will soak up a lot of paint so the fastest way would be to put a coat of mod podge or something on before the first coat of paint. What ever you decide to use, just seal it before putting it outside so it lasts
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Hi Mic! I'm guessing you want this for Halloween? Try some stiff foam from a local hobby store or Walmart. Depending on how realistic you want them, you could plaster them with strips of newspaper coated in gesso or a thinner glue mixture. Or even shred the news paper in small pieces and soak it over night, put it in a colander and squeeze out the excess water and add your Gesso or glue mixture and cover it with your paper mache. Once dry, you'll have a a nice stiff surface to paint. You could sponge paint it to make it look moldy or covered in lichen, or just a simple distressed look. Print or paint whatever you are planning, with a light bit of sponging or painting on your lettering.
To stand them up, use two dowel rods of wood and carefully make two holes in the bottom of your tomb stones. (about 6" to 8") Take the dowel rods out and dip or paint them with you glue mixture and let it set overnight with the dowel rods in the foam. Use another dowel to press into the ground, or find something like a few garden rocks, and maybe a potted plant that is wilted to hold it up.
Good luck and let us know how it goes! Google Youtube for any tutorial for paper mache or just fake tomb stones. I'm sure someone has this project down pat!
I saw the answer to this question on Hometalk, just this past week. So just type it in and look it up. It looked like a very easy project, just using rectangle cake pans and bagged cement. Good luck
You can use MDF board, or ply wood, even cardboard. If you use cardboard and want it thicker just draw out the shape you're wanting and trace it onto a few pieces and cut them all out, glue them together (I'd recommend using a strong sturdy glue rather than hot glue alone, if you use hot glue also use a second type to give it more strength like E6000 or UHU) once they are stuck together and the glue has dried and it's been painted/decorated how you want put a sealant over the whole thing so it lasts.
You can also use Styrofoam. If you use Styrofoam and want to paint it, it's very pourus and will soak up a lot of paint so the fastest way would be to put a coat of mod podge or something on before the first coat of paint. What ever you decide to use, just seal it before putting it outside so it lasts