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Make you own recycled paper
Making paper is really quite easy.
Try this method and you could make your very own paper in less than an hour: |
| What you’ll need: |
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Old newspaper |
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Screen on a frame – try stretching and pinning a section from a pair of tights over a small old picture frame |
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Bucket |
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A hand mixer or electric mixer (remember to ask your parents to help) |
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Water |
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Old newspapers |
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Optional: rolling pin, cloth – (a couple of tea towels work well), dried flowers and leaves, liquid starch and food colourings can be used to colour the paper. |
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What to do…
• Tear paper into small pieces. Soak in water for several hours or overnight.
• Scoop out 1/2-cup of paper and put it into a mixing bowl or electric mixer and add about two cups water from the soaking container. Blend for about 30 seconds.
• Blending breaks the paper into pulp. If you look at them with the magnifying glass, you can see the individual fibres that, when bonded together, make paper!
• Over a sink, pour the pulp onto the screen and let the water drain out. Place a layer of newspaper over the pulp and gently press out the excess water.
• Turn the screen and newspaper over (so the newspaper is at the bottom) and set it on a table (cover the table first!). Carefully lift the screen off the paper.
• Place another layer of newspaper onto the wet paper and gently press out more water. Turn it over and remove the layer of newspaper. Repeat this step a few times.
• Gently peel off the damp, recycled paper. Place it on a newspaper or table to dry overnight. You can also use a rolling pin to help flatten or press the paper. If you want, put the paper between two cloths (two kitchen tea towels work well) until dry. |
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Make a bowling game
This really is very easy to make and great fun.
| What you’ll need: |
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Ten plastic bottles – it doesn’t matter what sort as long as they are all the same size. |
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Shredded tissue paper, shiny cloth or anything else which weighs very little but is bright |
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Stickers or paint |
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A rubber ball – an old tennis ball is ideal |
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What to do…
•Clean the bottles thoroughly and then fill
them with the coloured paper or cloth.
Alternatively, simply decorate them with
stickers or paint. You can also number
them if you want.
• Arrange them in the formation you have in
your local bowling alley – and challenge all
your friends to a game!
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