Cornstarch Glue Recipes

CORNSTARCH GLUE

Steps:

• Combine ingredients into a saucepan and stir until smooth.
• Heat over medium heat until thick and translucent.
• Allow it to cool to touch.
• Lay large cookie cutters on parchment paper.
• Have child take foot long pieces of yarn, placing it in the glue.
• Run yarn between thumb and forefinger to remove excess glue.
• Lay inside cookie cutter.
• Repeat until you have a thin layer of yarn inside the cutter.
• With clean hands, press yarn flat.
• Carefully remove cutter and let your design dry, about 24 hours.
• Use red, white and pink yarn in heart cutters, different shades of green for Christmas trees, pumpkin cutter and orange and a little brown for the stem, what ever you want.

PAPER MACHE GLUE

Steps:

• Mix water, sugar, and vinegar in small saucepan. Bring to a rolling boil.
• Separate bowl: mix cornstarch and cold water.
• Water mix to VERY LOW heat.
• Add cornstarch mixture slowly to first mixture. Stir CONSTANTLY For about 2 minutes (keep an eye on it -- you know how corn starch is).
• Take off heat and let cool. Ready to use warm for paper mache but let sit til cool if using in glue bottle etc -- .