We've been wanting to try this for a while...ever since I received a cool hand made paper notebook in a trade! I bought a mesh splatter guard (for a frying pan) to spread and squish our paper pulp onto and it worked really well. WE hand ripped all the little bits of paper and soaked them for about an hour before giving them the full treatment in the blender! Good ol blender! The very same one I used to make Tui's baby food in is still going strong! Anyway...we got our pulp and spread it out onto the mesh and waalah! PAPER. We're still waiting for it to dry but it's looking good so far.
While we made the paper we talked about how the Egyptians made the first paper (Papyrus) and we talked about how they would have beaten the plant fibres (not nicely soak paper in a blender....joys of technology!)to turn it into a pulp. Naturally I took the opportunity to talk about recycling...sustainable resources etc! On Monday we're going to look at Hieroglyphic writing as well.
The boat trip was after our paper making!
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