The students in Room 6 made paper by ripping up paper into pieces, soaking it in buckets of water mixed with different colors, and mashing and stirring it with baseball bats. After letting it soak overnight, they drained the paper pulp into frames, pressed out excess water with sponges, and flattened the paper with rolling pins to produce finished sheets of handmade, recycled paper in various colors. The teachers and parents helped guide the students through the papermaking process.

1. Room SixPaper Making

2. The kids are cutting the paper and tipping it into the buckets. We used three different colours, one was orange, purple and white . After we had finished, we let it soak overnight . By Georgia

3. This is the paper ripped in the buckets so we can stir it. There are different colours. We used baseball bats to mash, mush and stir it. By Campbell

4. Here is Tom stirring the paper. I am using the baseball bat to mash the paper. When I put my hands in, it felt nice.By Tom

5. Annabel is stirring ripped paper. We were stirring it with baseball bats, it was fun. It was stirred in some buckets and water was in it.By Annabel

6. We are mixing the paper. We are pushing the paper down so it doesn’t just stay on the top and doesn’t soak anything up. By James

7. We are getting ready to make paper with these frames. We have to put the slushy paper in here and squish the paper down, onto the wire nets. We need to get the water out by using the frames.By Kate

8. The parents help us to make the paper. They are stirring the paper.They show us what to do.By Fraser

9. My mum is stirring the paper with the eggbeater to make it nice and smooth. Then she is going to put it on the floor on the net so the children can make paper.By Jayme

10. We are putting ripped paper in the frame because we need to put it in the water and this makes the paper all smooth.By Jozef

11. This is somebody sponging the paper so it is even, because if we don’t do this, one bit will be bigger and one bit will be smaller.By Shay

12. When the paper was in the frame we gentlypatted it down with a sponge. By Asha

13. This is Lisa beating the paper with a mixer. Then we’re going to make the paper. I likes squeezing the water out of the paper.By Alex

14. We are making some paper. We used the sponge to press the paper onto the frame.By Quinn

15. This is Asha showing her paper. We pressed the paper down with the spongeand got it ready for drying.By Asha

16. This is me making some purple paper. I am squeezing the sponge to get the water out. By Sammy

17. We made three different colours. We had to leave them for two days before they were dry enough to handle. By Reid

18. It felt soft and mushy when I took the paper pulp out. BY Vanessa

19. It took a long time to get all the water out of the paper pulp.

20. This is me rolling the paper down flat to get the water out.By Sam

21. This is Alex sponging out all the water in the paper. Jayme’s mother is helping him to make paper. By Alex

22. Here is Alyx she has just finished making her paper. Jozef is rolling his in the background. Lisa is helping us.By Alyx

23. Glen had to come with me to make the paper because it was lunch time.By Maxwell

24. I am waiting for Lisa to give me the rolling pin.By Oliver

25. Here we are flattening the paper. With newspaper and wooden boards and then next we will roll with the rolling pin. By Maxwell

26. Here I am just finished rolling my paper. Lisa helped me to make it. I chose purple for the colour. By Olivia

27. Look at our finished paper. We photocopied onto OHP film so that we could still see our recycled paper underneath.

28. Please read our poem about recycled paper.By Room 6