Handmade Paper

Maddy and Poppy gave Grace textured insect rubbing plates for her first birthday. These rubbing plates have made learning about insects so exciting for Grace over the past two years. Today Grace used butterfly and dragonfly rubbing plates to make her own handmade paper! Grace watered down white glue until it was the consistency of milk. She used a paint brush to apply a thin coat of the glue solution to the rubbing plates. Next, Grace put down a sheet of facial tissue and coated it with a second layer of glue. Grace then added one more sheet of tissue and gently painted over it with watercolor paint. Once the tissues dried Grace carefully peeled the paper off of the rubbing plates to reveal beautiful insect paper. From the look on Grace's face above she was very impressed with how the tissues transformed into insect paper!!