The piece of screen should be a little bigger than the picture frame. You will need an 8″x10″ wooden picture frame (make sure it’s one that no one needs anymore since it won’t be useable as a picture frame when you’re done) and a piece of screen or some sturdy netting with very small holes. When you looked at the fibers of your torn paper scraps up close with a magnifying glass, what did you notice? Can you tell what’s holding the fibers together? You’ll find out when you make your own paper in Part 3! Part 2: Make a Drying Frame That’s why you can see the bigger fibers on the surface of some types of paper, like construction paper and cardboard. What else is made from fibers? Take a look at your clothes – see the little fuzzy and stringy looking pieces on your shirt or pants? Those are fibers, too! Thin, smooth paper has small, narrow fibers and thicker paper with a rougher texture has much bigger fibers. All green plants (that includes trees) have cellulose inside their stems. Most paper is made from wood, which contains fibers called cellulose. What do you notice about the fibers of thick paper compared to the fibers of regular paper or tissue paper? What Happened:įibers are the hairy-looking things you see on the edges of paper when you tear it. As you tear them, look at the torn edges of each type of paper with the magnifier. Tear up the scraps of paper into small pieces. Do they all look the same? Are some longer or fatter than others?Ģ. Do you see the little hairy-looking pieces on the surface of the paper? Those are called fibers. Look at each of the different types of paper you’ve collected with a magnifying glass. If you want your paper to be a certain color, collect scraps that are mostly that color. Paper scraps that don’t have much writing on them make the nicest paper, but you can reuse whatever you have. Ask your family to start saving pieces of paper that they would normally throw away, like junk mail, newspaper, old notes, scraps from art projects, wrapping paper, tissue paper, or thin cardboard. When finished, you should have a strong and secure frame.For this project, you will need lots of scraps of paper that have already been used. Repeat this for the other three corners.Try out a square or diagonal lash, or experiment with one of your own. If you want to experiment with other looks, try any lash to tie the corners.Make sure the twine is tight throughout the knot so that the sides of the frame are secure. Keep the sticks on each side flat and close together.Secure the end of the twine with hot glue. The back should have one wrap along each side of the intersection, so the twine in the back should form a thin square. At this point the front of the corner should show two wraps of the twine across each diagonal, so the twine should form a thick X. Again, wrap diagonally, and then horizontally, and then diagonally, and then vertically. Wrap it across the back vertically this time. Bring it diagonally across the front again - this time it should fill in the other diagonal (so if the first time you went top right to bottom left, this time you'll go bottom right to top left). Then bring it horizontally across the back of the intersection. Bring the twine diagonally across the front of the corner. Use a hot glue gun to glue one end of the twine to the back of one corner of the frame (You can also use hot glue to initially fix sticks in batches together).
At one corner, lash the sticks together with twine.
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