HANDMADE LINT PAPER

Materials:

• Lint from clothes dryer
• Cake pan (round or square)
• Rags
• Cookie Sheet
• Any of the following items, torn or cut into small pieces: dried flowers, grass, weeds, leaves, colored thread, seeds, paper towels, colored paper, newspaper
• Water
• Old Screen
• Heavy Scissors
• Construction or poster paper
• White glue

Instructions:

1. Cut the old screen so that it fits easily into the bottom of the cake pan.
2. Remove the screen.
3. Place lint and other gathered materials into the cake pan and fill it with warm water.
4. Let the water stand for five minutes.
5. Submerge the old screen down into the "lint soup" at the bottom of the pan.
6. Carefully lift the screen out of the pan so that a layer of lint stays on top of the screen.
7. With the remaining lint mixture in the pan and your fingers, patch any holes in the layer of lint.
8. Blot the lint paper carefully with rags.
9. Place the screen on the cookie sheet and let it dry.
10. Remove the lint paper from the screen once it is completely dry and glue the lint paper to the construction paper.

Source: Good Art Earth, by MaryAnn F. Kohl and Cindy Gainer. For ages 6 and up.

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