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. 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. 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. And to do that, I needed plastic-free glue. 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. 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. According to this Instructable for making … Read the rest