1. Tear sheets of newspaper
into lots of small pieces.
2. Put the pieces into a bowl.
Cover with lots of water.
Leave to soak over night.
3. Mash the soaked paper with a
potato masher (slow method).
Or give them a quick whizz with
a food blender (fast method).
4. The mashed-up paper should
look like thick grey porridge.
This is your paper pulp.
5. Add the pulp to a bowl of
water. The mixture should look
like thick soup - not too runny.
6. Bend a wire coathanger into
the shape you want your paper to be.
It has to be able to fit into the
bowl you've used in step 5.
7. Stretch one leg of a pair of
tights over the coathanger.
Stretch them as much as you can.
Attach to the coathanger handle.
8. Give the paper pulp a good stir.
Lower the coathanger frame into
the water. Keep it level. Cover with
a thin layer of pulp. Lift out.
9. Place the frame on sheets of
newspaper to dry (slow method).
Or put it on a tray in an
airing cupboard (fast method).
10. When dry, carefully peel
the paper from the frame.
11. Your paper is ready to use.
Try this: For coloured or textured paper,
add food colouring, leaves, chopped grass
or petals to the pulp mixture at step 5.