Menorah

It's finished and took me less than two days. Firstly I made the shell from four plastic cups and a long thin box ( it previously held gourmet chocolates). I placed cardboard on the bottom of three cups and in between the two layers. Everything was glued together with a industrial strength contact adhesive (used some Bostik stuff, it worked well).

Next came the paper mache. I was abit lazy and only did one layer, if you want a smoother surface I suggest doing more than one layer then applying a layer of white paper. For the candlestick holders I used bottle caps, I glued upside down drawing pins to the inside of the caps then added blue tack. Then I cut strips of cardboard and folded them around each bottle cap and sellotaped the sides together. The cardboard and bottle caps were then hot glued to the base.

Then I covered everything in white paint. When that was dry I painted it gold. Then I put in the candles, to make them stand up as straight as possible and filled the sides around the candles with tissue paper.