Friday, October 19, 2012

Day 50!

I bought a kit to make your own paper a while back and decided to try it out with my niece and nephew.


There's a lot of patience involved, which is pretty tough for most kids, but they still had fun.  Yesterday, we ripped some newspaper into small pieces and let the strips soak overnight in a bowl of water.  Then today, we finished the rest and let the homemade paper dry.



At first I thought the paper seemed pretty dark, but it dried considerably lighter.  Next time I'll have to add more food coloring, because you can't even the notice the green I put in.  I'll also experiment more with adding bits of color and maybe leaves or something.




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