Paper making

Hey,
We are ready for presenting our first activity.
That is we shall be making paper out of newspaper.
So what do we need?

• Old news paper (we will need lots and lots, but c'mon )
• Water in a bucket only halfway full
• Man Power
• Paint if you want colorful paper (paint which you cant use anymore not useful things, we are about saving the environment so please stick to that.)
• mug
• bucket

Note to self: Start project a bit before you need it cause it ill take at least three days to make. I'm telling you last minute projects are not gonna work.

Now we have things, so??

1. Shred, (no, not with your paper shredder...what do you think I typed MAN POWER for) the paper into small pieces.
2. For colorful paper throw in the paint.
3. Keep that in the bucket for at least two - four hours.
4. After that time (Keep it till that time gets over...no shortcuts). We need another bucket we needd to strain it. That  is with a muslin cloth. Place the muslin cloth over the bucket tight
5. Pour a mug of the paper water paint....whatever mix on the cloth. Now, just press it lightly til most of the water has fallen in the bucket.
6. Now squeeze it. Wrap the cloth around that amount of paper and squeeze it.
7. Repeat till all the paper is strained.
8. Then pour a bit of that water back in just enough to make the strained paper wet that is only mushy no more otherwise you will have to strain it AGAIN.
9. Now beat or churn the pulp for a half hour. (MANPOWER)
10. Leave it for a night
11. Next afternoon, pat it quite thin do this on a news paper or you can revisit steps 1-9.
12. Pat it as this as regular paper and leave to dry for about 1 or 2 days.
13. BOOM paper

Here we have some pictures  from our routine...

,Here we have some paper drying on newspaper

Her dried and cut ready to be used paper

ya the hardest flattening it

Removing the paper after being dried