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Made a stamp scratching into plexiglass, we had to focus on shading with lines that were closer together for darker or farther apart for lighter.

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We made a portfolio to keep all of our art for the year in. the portfolio had our name on the front but each letter in our name had to be a different design that focused on one element of design in particular

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We made a portfolio to keep all of our art for the year in. the portfolio had our name on the front but each letter in our name had to be a different design that focused on one element of design in particular

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I did a neat mural workshop for how to make temporary murals on pavement with non-toxic paint which would be really cool to teach to kids! 

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I did a neat mural workshop for how to make temporary murals on pavement with non-toxic paint which would be really cool to teach to kids! 

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There were 50 murals painted that day, and each group's design is a response to the questions, "What is one solution to climate chaos in your community." Here are a few more stories about the some of the murals and what they meant.

We used non-toxic tempera and natural clay paints in conjunction with Rise for Climate, Jobs and Justice action at Civic Center Plaza.

Chinese Progressive Association

" What a glorious day! The sun was shining and I was one of several hundred people making art to declare our commitment to the environment and environmental justice for the whole world to see. Specifically, we wanted to have a strong Asian American presence and, to that end, we included the languages of thirteen different Asian groups.

But my biggest source of satisfaction came from working with youth from the Chinese Progressive Association's Youth MOJO (Movement Of Justice and Organizing) and Asian American students from Stanford University, all of whom quickly took stock of what needed to be done. I gave them very little direction. I wanted to let them take ownership of the project, and they more than lived up to the task. The day before, when I showed up with the design schematic, it turned out that my scaling calculations were all wrong. It took but a minute for one of the youth to whip out his cell phone and work out the correct dimensions. Saved the day (and my butt)! I thought to myself, with young folks like that, I feel much more confident and hopeful about the future."

No Coal in Oakland: Grassroots group stopping a coal export facility in Oakland

On September 8th, 2018, No Coal in Oakland joined 30,000 marchers from around the Bay Area, California, the U.S. and the globe " to demand our elected leaders commit to no new fossil fuels and a just and fair transition to 100% renewable energy " at the coming week's GCAS and beyond. The San Francisco march - Rise for Climate Jobs + Justice - lived up to expectations, and the 50+ panel street mural at Civic Center was awesome.
Read more here
Interfaith Contingent: Systems Change

"We believe that by raising our voices and by coming together, we can influence policy makers and world leaders to find sustainable solutions which address the climate crisis.

Artist: Nityalila Saulo, writes, " Inspired by my recent piece, 10,000 fingerprints, yesterday, at the #PeoplesClimateMarch , I was invited and given the opportunity to design the mural for the Interfaith contingent. But instead of fingerprints, we used our feet and made nearly 2,000 footprints to remind us of the prints we leave behind as we live on this earth. It is meant to inspire us to value the choices we make every day. To live simply so that others may simply LIVE."

Amazon Watch

"Our solution to climate injustice is to protect forests and respect indigenous rights; one key element of his solution is to End Amazon Crude.

Our mural highlighted the work of the Kichwa people of Sarayaku to protect kawsak sacha , the living forest. The central image, of a tree growing out of a fetus, is the symbol leaders from Sarayaku chose to represent their visionary kawsak sacha proposal. This proposal would create a new international category for the permanent protection of native land, free of natural resource extraction, and based upon the interconnected relationship between indigenous peoples and their forests, water, and spirits.

It was beautiful to see how many different people stopped by to help paint the mural and, in doing so, learned a bit about the Kichwa people of Sarayaku and their inspirational struggle to protect their territory from oil and gas drilling. Another highlight was when the visiting leaders from Sarayaku arrived after marching and got to see the symbol of their campaign and message in such a huge scale."

North Bay Organizing Project: Roots, Roof and Refuge

"What a week! NBOP joined hundreds and thousands of beautiful and powerful people and organizations from all over the world for a week of Solidarity to Solutions in San Francisco! As a member of Right To The City Alliance, It Takes Roots, and a host for the week, we walked and took over the streets of SF, we engaged in community conversations and organizing around frontline led solutions, we made our presence and demands known, we welcomed folks to Santa Rosa to witness and learn about our organizing, our people, and partnerships(thank you, LandPaths' Bayer Farm!), AND we had fun doing it! To all of our brothers and sisters that we shared space with this last week, thank you. We are out here together, defending and protecting our people, land, air, water, nuestra Madre Tierra!"

Sierra Club: Keep close to Nature's heart: explore, enjoy, protect, resist.

Artist: Julia Foote

"We used a John Muir (founder of Sierra Club!) quote as the basis for our conceptual solution to climate change, "Keep close to nature's heart" and Sierra Club mission words, "explore, enjoy, protect," and the more recent, "resist." The mural points to the idea that we should remember our roots and get back to the heart of nature in order to treat it with the care and respect it deserves. In the spirit of San Francisco, we went for a 60s/70s vibe with bright colors and lots of fun nature imagery. The mural included multiple elements of nature:hills, mountains, a stream, the sun, trees, and flowers.

The amount of collaboration in outlining the mural to follow the vision of the mural was amazing-very quickly we saw the mural look just as it was designed on paper. We moved quickly to make sure we had everything prepared for when the marchers arrived and made way for people to join us in painting as soon as we arrived. The families that joined in to paint were definitely a highlight because we got to see so many little kids trying hard to paint inside the lines. The best highlight was the exchange of both materials and support I saw from group to group that definitely made our mural feel like one component of the mass effort."
Read more here
Our Children's Trust

By Michelle Snider

Laney College's Eco Arts class brought color to climate change with a massive street mural in support of youth suing the U.S. Government for infringing on their constitutional rights.

Students and their instructors dipped paint brushes into plastic containers of thinned paint and filled the pavement with color on Sept. 5 on the asphalt next to the Art Center building. The #youthvgov mural was a practice run before the students painted a larger version at San Francisco's Civic Center on Sept. 8, that was twice the size of the one in the alley.

Laney's Eco Arts class presented their mural along with 49 other groups before the "Rise for Climate" marchers arrived. According to ABC 7 News, thousands protested climate change in San Francisco that day, marching from The Embarcadero to Civic Center.
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drawing fairy tale characters like mermaids

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drawing fairy tale characters like mermaids

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We had print-out templates of license plates, where we basically had full control of designing our own license plate. Had to be directly related to our lives in some way

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Andy Warhol-inspired paintings (e.g. his pop art)

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Andy Warhol-inspired paintings (e.g. his pop art)

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I can't remember the book series/artist but we made flat pictures using clay to match the style of a picture book we had read!

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Got half of a photo and got to draw the other half however we wanted (symmetrical or something else)

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https://www.paperslurry.com/2014/05/19/how-to-make-handmade-paper-from-recycled-materials/

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Paperslurry | - A mixture of hand papermaking -

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Making paper by hand at home can be a pretty simple process. It's also a fantastic way to use up your old receipts, scrap papers, junk mail, and copy paper that you were about to throw in the recycling bin, and instead create a thing of glorious handmade beauty.

Start Making Paper with the Free PDF Cheat Sheet

Have those recycled papers hanging around? Some sort of plastic storage tub, and a kitchen blender? With a few supplies and these basic instructions, you're well on your way to making handmade paper and being ridiculously friendly to the environment.

Keep reading for the tutorial!

Supplies for Making Paper

Scrap Papers

Plastic storage tub or vat

Kitchen blender - get one from the thrift store

Mould & Deckle (a screen attached to a frame) How-to make a mould & deckle >

Wood boards OR sponge & rolling pin

Towels, wool blankets, cloth, pellon, Sham-wows, or other absorbent material

STEP 1: CUT UP PAPER

Cut or rip up your paper into about 1 inch squares.

Soak your paper for a few hours or overnight.

Drawing, printmaking, and watercolor papers are best because they are generally made from stronger fibers (such as cotton rag, and not chemically treated tree fiber). Your fiber/scrap choice and its characteristics dictate the quality of the final sheet.

However, experiment with junk mail, office paper, paper grocery bags, the yellow pages, rejection letters, and more. No plastic, people.

Also, experiment with different color combinations.

STEP 2: BLEND IT & MAKE A VAT OF PULP

Fill up a kitchen blender with water. Throw in a good handful or two of the cut up scrap papers (not too much more, or you'll burn the blender motor out). Blend. Keep blending until it's a pulp.

Don't make your smoothies with that blender anymore.

Have a storage tub hanging around? Those concrete mixing vats from the hardware store also work. Fill up the tub with your blended pulp, about 1/3 to 1/2 way. Add more water to the vat. The more pulp to water, the thicker your paper will be.

STEP 3: PULL SOME SHEETS

For this, you'll need a mould and deckle. It's basically two frames that are the same size, one with screen attached.

Learn how to make your own, the cheap & quick way! Click here for the DIY mould & deckle tutorial >

There's also a list of papermaking suppliers who sell mould & deckles on our Resources page.

Now, for sheet formation:

Stir your vat of pulp.

Hold the mould screen side up, and place the deckle evenly on top.

Holding them together at a 45 degree angle, dip the mould and deckle to the bottom of the vat and scoop up, holding the mould and deckle horizontally.

As you lift it out of the slurry, give it a quick shake back and forth, and left to right to align the fibers and make a more uniform sheet. Stop shaking before the sheet is fully drained.

Let the water drain to a drip.

STEP 4: COUCHING (**Pronounced coo-ching. For real.)

'Couching' means to transfer the wet sheet from the mould to a flat, absorbent surface. Wool felts are ideal, but there are many other options: wool blankets, smoother towels, thick paper towels, non-fusible interfacing or pellon, sham-wows, or bed sheets. Set up your felt with a board underneath and soak your couching materials.

Remove the deckle from the mould.

Place a long edge of the mould on the felt.

In one smooth motion, place the mold face down, press down, and lift from that initial edge. Think of this like a close the door, open the door, motion.

STEP 5: PRESSING

Option 1: Hand Pressing

Place pellon or paper towel on top of your freshly couched sheet. With a sponge, press gently at first, then press firmly with as much pressure as possible. Have a rolling pin or old paint roller? Use that to press your paper even more.

Option 2: Board Pressing

Place another felt on top of your freshly couched sheet. Continue to couch another sheet, layer another felt, and repeat. Layer one final felt and another wood board when you've made a stack. Take the post outside to a concrete or stone surface. Stand on it!

STEP 6: DRYING

Option 1: Surface Drying (that's this picture here)

Find a flat, non-porous surface. Smooth wood boards, plexiglass, windows, and formica surfaces work well.

Take your wet sheet and gently press onto the flat surface. Make sure the edges are pressed down well.

Let the paper dry (1-3 days depending on humidity levels and thickness of the paper).

Peel it off.

Start Making Paper with the Free 2-Page Cheat Sheet That Gives You Each Step

Option 2: Exchange Drying

Get some blotters, towels, or other absorbent, dry, flat material.

Layer the material and then your wet handmade paper on top.

Repeat. Create a stack.

When you're done, place a wood board or a book on top. Weigh it down with more books or something heavy.

Check it once every day and exchange the damp material with dry material until your handmade paper is dry.

Option 3: No Restraint Drying

This one's easy. Take your wet sheet and throw it on a shelf, table, counter...and let it dry. It'll be wild, wrinkly, and textured, but sometimes wild and free is good.

Option 4: Dry on Pellon or Cloth

After pressing, peel and hang up the cloth or pellon (with the wet paper still stuck to it) that you've couched onto, and hang on a clothesline with the top edge of the pellon.

Because you've pressed the paper to the pellon, the pellon will restrain the paper as it dries.

Once the paper is dry (1-2 days), peel it from the pellon. The paper will be slightly wavy.

We dried this paper on smooth plywood.

Also, if you have left over pulp in the tub, you can save it. Take a mesh paint strainer bag, or a fine mesh pasta strainer to drain out all the water. A condensed version of the pulp will be left. Squeeze that into a ball, and let it dry. To reuse down the road, simply soak overnight, rip apart, and blend again.

Thank-you Liz Wikstrom for helping make this tutorial happen, and for making paper!
So, what should you do now?
Start Making Paper with the Free PDF Cheat Sheet That Gives You All the Steps
And try out these creative techniques...
Do you make paper from scraps? Did you find this tutorial helpful? Have other tips and tricks? Comment on this blog post and share with us all!

Happy papermaking,
- May Babcock

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Making paper by hand at home can be a pretty simple process. It's also a fantastic way to use up your old receipts, scrap papers, junk mail, and copy paper that you were about to throw in the recycling bin, and instead create a thing of glorious handmade beauty.

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we did an Aboriginal art workshop where we created drawings in which all elements that we drew had to be connected by one continuous line 

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we did an Aboriginal art workshop where we created drawings in which all elements that we drew had to be connected by one continuous line 

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went to an art gallery and learned how to paint ocean landscapes

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Based on a source photo, we recreated the image by using words to redraw the shapes and shadings

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Grade 5- making papier maché ancient Egyptian vases

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Grade 9- Perspective art, massive drawing of a city

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Grade 9- Perspective art, massive drawing of a city

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Make a spectacular volcano using our simple paper mache recipe - then, add the ingredients to make your lava, and stand back to watch some incredible science magic.

The papier-mâché and paint will both take a while to dry, so it's best to spread this activity out over a few days. We promise it'll be worth the wait once you see the results!

Rather watch than read? Hit play on the video below!

You will need

An empty plastic bottle

Cardboard

Sticky tape

Foil

Paper-mache mix

Paints (red, orange, yellow, green, blue)

Paintbrush

2-3 tsps bicarbonate of soda

Red floor colouring

Vinegar

How to make a paper mache volcano

Step 1

Attach a plastic bottle to a large square of cardboard using sticky tape.

Step 2

Scrunch up foil and create a mountain shape around the bottle.

Step 3

Make the papier mâché mixture and apply layers of newspaper strips with a paintbrush.

Step 4

Once fully dry, paint the volcano. We added green grass, grey rock, and red and yellow spewing lava.

Step 5

Now for the exciting part! Add 2-3 tsps of bicarbonate of soda, and a few drops of red food colouring.

Step 6

Pour in the vinegar, then stand back and watch the volcano erupt!

Creativity

Science

Learning guide

This exciting activity combines art and science with explosive results! Your child can get creative making the volcano look fantastic, as well as learning the craft of papier-mâché. Then, they can watch a chemical reaction when vinegar and bicarbonate of soda combine. Why not use this activity as a springboard for your child to find out some fun volcano facts? And don't forget there are lots more fun ways to learn on the Giggly Shop.

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Make a papier mâché volcano that actually erupts

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Make a paper mache volcano using our simple paper mache recipe. Add vinegar, bicarbonate of soda and food colouring to make the lava.

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Created a mask that represents how you think other people perceive you.

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We studied the group of seven and did pastel colouring for our favourite paintings.

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Listening to music and drawing how it made us feel using only lines and different colours

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Listening to music and drawing how it made us feel using only lines and different colours

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We made stamps from erasers that when 4 stamps were put together made a circular symmetrical design

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We made stamps from erasers that when 4 stamps were put together made a circular symmetrical design

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We went on a field trip to a pottery workshop and we learned how to make small sculptures

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Combined with the science curriculum, we had to make a cell

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Filling a drawing of Tintin with words from the comic books that we enjoyed.

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We made paper mache globes. It was messy but fun and memorable! - Casey

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Hand turkey in the younger grades

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Grade 3 - Adding textures to paint (we added salt to create a grainy effect)

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Grade 3 - Adding textures to paint (we added salt to create a grainy effect)

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Painting emotions not than objects

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Making mother's and Father's Day cards for my parents.

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Making mother's and Father's Day cards for my parents.

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Pottery- developing sculptures and glazing them

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Pottery- developing sculptures and glazing them

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Grade 7 - making art using only coloured tape

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Grade 7 - making art using only coloured tape

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Cut out magazine images and pasted them on paper around a theme. Didn't need a lot of artistic ability, but the result was satisfying.

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Grade 6 - Learning about Abstract pattern through creating a newspaper collage. 

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Grade 6 - Learning about Abstract pattern through creating a newspaper collage. 

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We drew lines with our eyes closed listening to music then colored in the shapes

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We drew lines with our eyes closed listening to music then colored in the shapes

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We filled a piece of bristol board with our name, in as many different ways as we could.
Then, we made a 1"x1" square "viewfinder" and zoomed in on interesting areas.
We enlarged the interesting areas using gouache.

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Grade 7 - Vanishing point perspective drawings 

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Grade 7 - Vanishing point perspective drawings 

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Drawing a sketch of my shoe using a pencil (shading where appropriate)

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This square we madeart where we coloured alternating squares

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This square we madeart where we coloured alternating squares

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Grade 6 - using only dots (pointillism) to make a drawing

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Grade 6 - using only dots (pointillism) to make a drawing