Red roses – and green and blue and yellow ones…

 

This project took place over two weeks with a group of summer camp kids. The first week, campers tore scrap construction paper and discarded office memos into “coin-sized bits,” tossed them into a blender with some water, then whirred the combo into soupy fibers. The mix was poured into a circular mold over a window screen, squeezed out a bit, and left in the sun to dry. The second week, the dried discs of lumpy, bumpy paper were carefully torn into spirals that were reshaped into colorful rustic roses and mounted onto contrasting color disks to be gifts for mom or mementoes of happy camp crafting.