Basic Genie Light
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Instructions
Design and Build Your Lamp
1. Way your blueprint, then dash off a sketch as your blueprint. You'll thirst for to generate memo of the draw's Ending heighth, diameter and length. Because this Testament be a event prop, weight is crucial. It needs to be ponderous Sufficiently to stay in put, on the other hand illumination Sufficiently to be easily manoeuvred. To conformed these constraints, the frame Testament be specious of craft wire and the "skin" Testament be paper mache.
2. Rupture the light into components. A genie lamp has a crank, a bowl (the leading headlight oppose, which may insert the spoutlike evil) and the lid. (Probation the resources sections for additional examples of these types of lamps.)
3. Decide how much craft wire to purchase, and determine what gauge (thickness) of wire you need. The thicker the wire, the more difficult it will be to bend. Thicker wire, however, is also more sturdy. To determine how much wire to receive, make a framing blueprint, breaking down your design into "loops" of wire, starting with a narrow circle for the very bottom and progressing into more elliptical loops as you get to the body of the lamp and then more narrow at the very top. These loops will need to be connected with vertical ribs to hold the structure together.8. When the top of the structure has dried, paint the lamp the desired color. Allow the paint to dry.
Your wire structure should resemble a 3-D genie lamp. Secure the loops to the ribs using small segments of string. Make sure the string is tight.
5. Make the wallpaper paste into a medium-thick slurry using the water. Dip strips of newspaper into the slurry, removing the excess liquid from the paper by pulling the strip between two fingers. Drape the strips of paper over the wire structure until the structure is coated in the wet newspaper. Keep the surface as smooth as possible, flattening bubbles in the newsprint.
6. Continue adding layers of newspaper and paste until the lamp achieves a smooth surface. You'll need at least two layers of newspaper. When you are complete the structure should be moist, but not dripping.
7. Allow the structure to dry. Make sure the paper is not too thin. If it seems like it could tear easily, it is too thin, and needs at least one more layer of paper, maybe two.
When the structure has dried completely, carefully add rocks through the hole in the top. The rocks will help keep the lamp from falling over. Seal the hole in the top of the lamp with paper mache.
You'll need roughly one loop for every 5 inches of vertical height, using medium-stiff 9-gauge wire, and a vertical rib for about every 10 inches of length. This type of wire will hold its shape, but might be a bit too hard to bend by hand.4. Cut the wire into individual segments and bend into loops using pliers.
