1. How important is paper? What do you use it for?
Get into pairs:
How important is paper? What do you use it for?

2. Paper Making
By: Lynea Axelson

3. History Took up to 3000 years to invent paper!
Originated in China around 100 BC
Ts’ai Lun first to start a paper making industry
Made his paper by mixing chopped mulberry bark and hemp rags with water, mashing it flat, then pressing out the water and letting it dry.

4. Pam Shaw

5. John Babcock

6. John Babcock

7. Directions Pick out about 10 medium sized paper scraps
Tear them into smaller pieces (about the size of a quarter)
Put the torn pieces of paper into a blender
Fill the blender half way with water
Blend the paper/water to create pulp
Pour the pulp into a paper making screen
Spread the pulp evenly throughout the screen
Take the screen out, set it on a white rack, press on the paper with a sponge to get the water out
Once most of the water is out, start to peel a corner back
Once the paper is peeled all the way off the screen set it on a piece of fabric to dry