The mask is a facial replica used on the face to portray a character.Mask is usually used for mask dance performances in bringing certain roles. Masks are also often used by children to play with each other, such as joking and scaring his friends. Various character masks we often encounter, there are scary faces, funny faces, old faces, sad faces and there are also faces / faces of animals.

Mask shapes can be made with various media / materials, including wood, plastic, rubber, fiberglass, paper, and others. Here let's learn how to make a mask by using paper waste. To make a mask with paper material must first be made reference / mold from clay. The prints do not have to be made too smooth, make the faces unique and funny.

Media makes a variety of masks can be from wood, clay, paper pulp or paperboard. Here we will try to make a mask with the media paperboard with the technique of folding, twisting and cutting. Mask making will train us to make the character of human face there is a funny, fierce, blank, judes and others. The process is very easy only requires perseverance and patience, the following will be described how to manufacture:

Material make mask:

• Paperboard.
• Old newspaper.
• Coloring can be selected one such as: Water Paint / Cat Poster / Paint for Styroform.
• Accessories like : yarn, fabric, palm fiber, lace and others.

Tools:

• Scissor.
• Cutter knives.
• Hekter.

Ways of making:

• Make a basic sketch of an Oval face on a piece of cardboard then around the sides put a dash of 8-point dots.

• Scissor, Fold and bend the basic sketch of the oval-shaped face then in the hekter one by one to form as the picture.

• Scissors of small paper with small size and then paste on the basic shape wajag mask, meaning that the basic shape of the mask of cardboard to be hard.

• The basic shape of mask that has been pasted with newspaper clipping.

• Make parts of face mask like eyebrow, nose, temple, and mouth with technique of folding, cutting and sticking. The way is the same as how to create a basic shape mask like the picture no.1 and 2 only smaller size. Previously measure the position of the eyes, nose and mouth according to our face then perforated.

• After the parts of the face is attached to the basic shape of the mask paste newspaper clipping to the entire face of the mask, so the mask becomes harder.

• Furthermore mask faces live colored as we pleased, can use watercolor for styroform, poster paint, wood paint and more. Then finished our mask and good luck ...

Some examples of mask characters that have been created.