I'm going to be teaching you how to make paper. And paper making is one of my favorites it really is a lot of fun. Its easy to do at home you can do it right in your kitchen and you could put the paper pulp right in the sink. You got to need a blender, you even need a couple of pieces of white felt and you are going to need a little screen and your going to need of course your paper pulp and I will always have like to have some press flowers or leaves to put in my paper that add a little decoration to them.
So I'm going to go ahead and get started explain to you some of the materials that you can use. The screens you can actually buy papermaking kits now in there local art store and they come with really, nice screens already. But if you don’t want to spend that kind of money you can take an old picture frame and some screen door screen and just staple it onto the back of an old frame and you’ve got a perfect little paper making screen.
You can also buy what they call cotton linters, which is how you actually get your paper pulp. But if you don’t have access to this yo can use paper towels, you can use Cleanex, you can even add color to your paper by using construction paper. I'm going to only stick with one color per batch though because otherwise if you start mixing a lot of colors you just going to end up with mud.
So I'm going to go ahead and show you how I mix up my pulp and if you fill up your blender about halfway with some water and then you take your paper linters and I will actually put paper linters in here and I’ll put some paper towels just so you’ve see that. It really doesn’t make that much difference which one you use, you want to tear the linters into kind of bite size pieces and go ahead and drop them in the blender.
And we’ll put some paper towels in there. And then maybe the night before or couple of days before when you decide to do this you may want to go outside and collect some leaves or some flowers if you can depending on what season of the year it is and. I just put mine between the pages of a telephone book and then I put another telephone book right on top of them and just left them there overnight.
So I think we’ve got enough paper towel here, and I'm just going to go ahead and put the lid on. And I just put it on beat the first time and now I'm going to turned it up a bit and it’s just chopping it all up in there. I'm going to pour it right into my little bath here of water and I actually have more pulp made up in this little bowl here to my left. So we have lots of paper pulp and what you want to do is with your hands kind of swirl it around because you want it evenly distributed in your sink or in your container. Because you don’t want your paper to be really, thick on one end and really thin on the other. So kind of loosen it up a little bit, okay.
And will make some room for myself here. Okay and what you are going to do is you are going to take your screen and you’re going to put it in the container downing to your water in an angle. Because what you are trying to do is get the screen under the pulp that’s floating on the top, okay. And then you gently kind of move it around underneath till you find a spot where it looks like the pulp is evenly distributed and then very carefully you can lifted up just kind let it float to the top, okay.
And I'm just going to let it float there for a minute. I got these flowers out of my garden I just carefully broke off the stems. And put them between the pages of a phonebook and press them overnight. I'm just kind of land down here and make interesting design I hope, okay.
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