Making the candy canes was a lot of fun and taught me some good basic skills! Originally they where going to be made out of latex but they turned out a bit too flimsy, so we used piping insulation and moulded this to the candy cane shape by make insertions and filling them with glue. Following this we, surfomed them with muslin and PVA, but then we had huge problems when we painted them white as they kept on cracking! We tired so many different ways to overcome this i.e repainting them, repainting them again with watered down paint, repainting them again with paint mixed with PVA yet nothing seemed to work. However, after talking to Astrella we found out it was because we had been using the hair dryer to dry them not all the moisture was evaporating at the same time causing cracks, so in the end we just had to leave them over night. When we went back to them the following day there was hardly any cracks and we could paint the red stripe on which we marked out with masking tape and once this had dried we glaze glossed them to make them look all juicy!
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