Paper Making

Ms. Glaser Teaches Paper Making.

   Recently, Ms. Glaser, assisted by Ms. Kirch, taught paper making to Ms. Gray's first grade class.  Ms. Glaser is more than just a teacher of paper making and arts and crafts.  Ms. Glaser has written two books about parenting and child care.  One entitled, Who's the Boss and  the other is Baby and Toddler Sleep Solutions For Dummies. It was very nice of Ms. Glaser and Ms. Kirch to teach paper making on this occasion, a big thank you to all who made it happen.

   As per usual we did some writing of directions, sequencing, and some vocabulary work that involved the activity.  But if you asked the students I'm sure they would only remember the paper making.

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  Materials are spread out, and everybody is queuing up for paper making. 

   The first step in paper making is to tear scraps of paper into small pieces.  Then they are put into a bucket of water to soak for a bit. 

    After the small, torn up bits of paper soak in the water for a while, they are put into a blender and ground up into a nice pulpy mix.

    After the paper is torn up and ground up in  a blender, it is dumped into a larger container of water.  This lets the ground up paper pulp disperse into the water and soak up even more water.

    It's hard to see here, but Ms. Glaser has given the student a small wooden frame that has basically window screen stretched across it.  At this point the student is sloshing the frame about and lifting it up slowly with the paper pulp settling into and on top of the screen and  frame.

   At this point, you can see the student lifting the frame up with the paper pulp distributing itself onto the frame and screen.

    Here, Ms. Glaser is helping a student to add some decorative bits of material, another frame(I believe, called the deckle), to shape the paper Water is also being pressed out and the paper pulp is being patted with a sponge. 

   At this point the  Ms. Glaser places absorbent cloth on the pulp and the frame is flipped and removed. 

   Here is a shot of the paper with a name tag on top, ready for drying.