How Do You Make Handmade Paper With Children?
Making handmade paper is wonderful hands on tactile, multi sensory project for children. I have done this project with children as young as 3years old and it is enjoyed by kids of all ages…. This is the basic technique… See the resouce on Embellishments for more advance techniques and embellishments… also an article on painting your papers for mounting or for making cards… Look for them also in resources…. But lets get started with the basic technique If you are recycling paper scraps they must first be pulped… Tear them into small pieces… smaller than one inch squared. Place a small handful into the blender with two cups of water and one teaspoon of cornstarch and blend until they are pulped…. a very thin puree…. no chunks… Empty the pulp into the plastic bin. The cornstarch will act a sizing in your finished paper to prevent ink from running on it as you write. Repeat step 2 until all the paper has been pulped and added to the bin. Stir the pulp into a slurry… i
