Today we went over to Mrs. Deb's house to play with paper pulp. It was so cool! She had taken some old newspapers that she ripped into strips, soaked them for several hours, then squeezed out a lot of the water and put the remaining pulp in the blender under it was just a bunch of mush. Each child got some of the pulp and they pressed it into plastic cookie cutter shapes. Nicholas chose a T-Rex. It was fun feeling the texture of the pulp. It was kind of like working with Play-Doh but it doesn't stick together quite as much. We had to really pack it into the cookie cutters while pressing out as much of the remaining water as possible.
Mrs. Deb said it would take a day or two before they were dry enough to survive being popped out of the molds so we left the dino with her. Maybe we'll go back in a few days and paint him. After we had finished the paper pulp project, the children enjoyed some homebaked cookies and played together in the back yard.
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