Homemade Paper
Materials needed: Toilet paper, cookie cutter, wire
screen, hand mixer, large bowl or tub, cup, rolling pin, glitter, confetti,
etc., plastic bag, large index cards.
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1. Place a handful of ripped pieces of toilet
paper into a bowl filled with warm water.
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2. Use hand mixer to stir the pieces
until your pulp mixture breaks apart
3. Add any desired glitter or confetti
to the pulp mixture
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4. Place a cookie cutter onto the wire screen and
fill with pulp mixture (approximately ¼ inch thick)
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5. Gently press down on pulp to form
a float layer inside the cookie cutter
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6. Carefully remove cookie cutter and place
plastic bag on top of the pulp on the screen
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7. Gently roll the excess water out
of the pulp using the rolling pin
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8. Carefully remove the pulp from the plastic
and place between 2 index cards to dry overnight
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9. Now you can use your homemade paper!!
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*Special thanks to Dr. Zink-Sharp for use
of paper-making materials. |