Want Plastic-Free Glue? Make Homemade Wheat Paste.
I felt like I was back in kindergarten yesterday… cutting and pasting with paste you could eat if you wanted to. Â I’m taking my plastics information display to the ReUseConex in Portland tomorrow and wanted to make it sturdier. Taping paper pages directly to the wooden board was not working well. Â The paper curled and the natural cellulose tape I was using wouldn’t stay stuck to the wood.
This is NOT attractive:
So I decided to mount the pages on recycled cardboard. Â And to do that, I needed plastic-free glue. Â Finally, a chance to test out the recipe for homemade wheat paste that I included in my book without actually trying first!
How to Make Homemade Wheat Paste, aka Plastic-Free Glue
Ingredients:
1/2 cup flour (white or unbleached flour is best. Â Apparently, you can do it with whole wheat, but it might not be as sticky.) 3/4 cup cold water 3 cups boiling waterThat’s all. Â According to this Instructable for making … Read the rest