Teaching Hand Papermaking: A Classroom Guide
SHOWS YOU HOW TO:
Make simple and inexpensive tools for papermaking
Scrounge supplies when your budget is limited
Purchase papermaking supplies
Adapt tools and techniques to work in classroom settings
Prepare pulp
Prepare paper for writing by using paper sizing
Color pulp in various ways
Manipulate pulp using several techniques including stencil and shaped -screen laminations, embedding, embossing, casting, pulp painting, and watermarks
Enlist the help of parent volunteers and strengthen community support for the art program at your school
Set up classrooms for making paper with large groups
Keep the floor dry during a 40-minute class with 25 enthusiastic papermakers, each making their own sheet of paper
Have students label papers while they are still wet
Get your students to do the clean-up
Display studentsŐ handmade paper
Integrate papermaking with the arts curricula of painting, printmaking, calligraphy, ceramics, fiber arts, photography, computer graphics, sculpture, theater, industrial arts
Enhance multi-cultural studies by including papermaking
Use papermaking as the ideal hands-on learning experience for units about the environment and recycling
Integrate papermaking with the core curricula of Language Arts, Science, Mathematics
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