making little gift boxes for Christmas out of papier-mâché sure there are templates on the website for cutting out carpal boxes a card box like this if you just fold it is quite flimsy one of the things that pop a mushy does is make into a much more solid thing you just sort of taste strips of paper and you're soaked them in module lay it over your face smoothing it down together and you just keep going italy important to sort of wrap around any corners you might have knew what your bluetooth thick or strong for this something quite watery is best and it softens the paper it's exactly the same just very slightly larger so it'll go over the top ok that's a good first layer I'm going to let that dry by the fire and then I can do another layer tomorrow and start decorating them you paint my box is black because things that looked like Japanese lacquered boxes were very fashionable don't try not to put the paint on too thick it's better if it's a forever quite young man now i'm going to gluten all sorts of dried things on my got ivy leaves and rose petals like that i think has done so we have one papier-mache give box for christmas you can find full instructions and all the templates on the website at BBC co uk forward slash victorian christmas