Monday, January 9, 2012

Homemade paper

We made homemade paper at nature school today. This was such a fun activity to do with kids! From start to finish, you make make a piece of paper in less than 10 min (if you have all the equipment ready beforehand). The kids were all able to take home a freshly made piece of homemade paper. I used a couple of different websites for info. One was Paper Alice's youtube tutorial- http://youtu.be/UlX87tvei7c
The other was instructables- http://www.instructables.com/id/Homemade-Paper/

Here are some pictures of our creations:




The kids collected moss and grass on our hike to add to the paper pulp. We also added glitter, spices, and a little bit of colored paper to the mixture. Now I'm thinking my boys and I might have to make another batch for homemade valentines!

1 comment:

  1. I love this idea! I am organizing Preston's preschool group for next year right now and we plan on incorporating LOTS of your lessons, so keep them coming :-)! I'm so excited you are sharing all your hard work!!!

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