Tree Hugging Family » make paper http://www.treehuggingfamily.com Family Life On The Green Side Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:39:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Tree Hugging Family: The Week In Review http://www.treehuggingfamily.com/tree-hugging-family-the-week-in-review/ http://www.treehuggingfamily.com/tree-hugging-family-the-week-in-review/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:00:20 +0000 Jennifer http://www.treehuggingfamily.com/tree-hugging-family-the-week-in-review/ Post from: Tree Hugging Family

]]> tree hugging familyIn case you missed something great; here’s what was happening during the first week of February 2008, here at Tree Hugging Family.

Of course the biggest news was that we added co-blogger Peggy to Tree Hugging Family – which has been great so far.

We worked on our trash audit all week. We looked at Trash Control, What Can’t be Recycled, Aerosol Product Recycling, then we wrapped it all up.

A special guest post from Fast Growing Trees Nursery about planting trees for energy savings.

The newer and useful Organic Guide.

Flip & Tumble: Earth-Friendly Bags and reusable bags for men.

Sustainable Valentine Day Gifts!

One very cool image book about the planet.

How to conserve energy and have fun at the same time.

We had our first official kids Saturday. That was fun and we looked at a lot of neat stuff like…

Owl Puke You Can Buy

How to Make Paper

Eco-Baby Items

Saving the Planet from A to Z

Wow, it was a busy week. Be sure to stick around for more family-friendly green living tips and ideas during this upcoming week. In fact, you might consider subscribing to Tree Hugging Family so you don’t miss a thing.

Hope you all had a wonderful week.

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]]> This is a great project for kids – almost easy enough to do themselves (if they’re a bit older). My friend, our kids, and I did this and they LOVED it. We used a blender, to mash the paper, not our hands, but the results are the same. In addition we added stuff like:

  • Dried flowers – both chopped up in the mix, and we tried pressing some into the wet paper too. Both worked.
  • Herbs – both dried and ground for color, and some whole dried for looks.
  • Essential oil (a few drops)
  • And in one crazy moment dried chili peppers. (Hey, it was New Mexico, they add chili peppers to everything). Actually our chili paper came out looking a bit like icky orange gray – I don’t know that I’d recommend it.

You can experiment. Our best paper happened when we made mixes of recycled colored art paper of the kids, and white paper from old bills. If you use newspaper, it will come out a tad gray, however, if you add some red and blue used construction paper you’ll get a nice lavender. Also, you can use any size frame you like. If you don’t have a frame set-up, another option is to simply press the wet paper mix into a flat (or even curved) strainer – you know the type you set on top of spaghetti sauce. It will work (promise).

Now gather the kids and have fun. See what cool kinds of paper you can come up with.


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