Paper Making

I am a FUN homeschool mom!

This is my new positive affirmation. Today we made paper and everyone had a hand in the process. We followed the directions found here.

We decided not to blend the paper pulp too much so that there are colorful flakes left in the paper. We used a lot of color so our paper actually came out sort of purplish.

We just let it dry in the sun instead of squeezing the water out with cookies sheets and hanging it on the clothes line. Simplify!

To tell you the truth it made me feel sort of powerful. While we made our paper we chatted about this and my daughter decided to write a story about how she and her siblings saved the country by covertly making paper and sending a crucial message to the White House while we were at war. Can't wait to read it!