I agree with Carrol on using concrete around children. You could pre-mix the papercrete so they wouldn't be exposed to the dust but they'd still have to wear gloves when mushing around with papercrete. You do get watery concrete on your hands handling it without gloves and it dries out your skin real fast.
Basically all I did was follow instructions for making high relief pressed paper wall sculptures. I just used papercrete instead of nice pulped paper to see how it would work.
What I like about it is it does look like a concrete sculpture -but very lightweight - and it's recycled newspapers. I might like to do some large pieces eventually. I'd also like to try a regular sculpture mushing papercrete over a wood and wire mesh form for lightweight yard decorations, like a coyote or something. I think I'd still have to use a layer of straight concrete as a final coat though so I could work the details into it by hand. I don't think I could do that with straight papercrete. I wanted also want to make some lightweight stepping stones out of papercrete and then mosaic over them but haven't tried yet.
One thing I'm getting ready to do is make plaster molds of various sizes of smooth river rocks I've collected so I can make papercrete half rocks that can be painted to look like rocks and then attached to walls to make a faux rock wall. They'd be very lightweight as compared to real rocks and already halved. Store bought cultured stone (fairly lightweight) is pretty expensive.
Terry
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