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Nature Print Paper

July 18, 2009 By Jimmie Quick 9 Comments

Not too long ago, I had my mom ship me some craft supplies I ordered online. (Thanks, Mom!) In the package was Nature Print Paper. It’s a fun and easy sunny day craft idea. Our weather is hot, hot, hot with lots of bright sun! So I pulled out the nature print paper this week.

We collected some interesting shapes from outdoors and placed them on the paper. We learned that keeping the objects flat on the paper produces the crispest outlines. So for the leaves, we placed a clear sheet of heavy plastic over it all to lightly press everything down. (The shell is on top of the plastic.)

nature print paper

And this is the result we got.  Photosensitive paper is an interesting addition to your nature studies. We’ll probably put these pages into Sprite’s nature journal.

nature print #2

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Comments

  1. Candace says

    July 18, 2009 at 8:53 pm

    Jimmie, I LOVE this!! Very cool. My girls would love it, and adding it to the nature journal is a fabulous idea! I could not get your link to work, but i was wondering, would this work with any “thin” type paper? I assume it would not work with regular printer type paper…thank you! 🙂
    .-= Candace´s last blog ..Animal Herds ~ Art project =-.

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    • Jimmie says

      July 19, 2009 at 11:02 am

      I’m so sorry about the link not working. You must have photosensitive paper to do this. Try this link at Dick Blick. That’s where I bought it actually.

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  2. Shannon says

    July 18, 2009 at 11:23 pm

    JImmie, I just came upon you site via THe Homeschool Classroom blog. That photosensitive paper rocks!! Thanks for sharing. :o)

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  3. Makita says

    July 19, 2009 at 12:17 am

    We did this activity last year but ours didn’t turn out quite so beautifully. I think our paper may have been ‘old’ or perhaps we just didn’t wait long enough …. anyway. Well done!
    .-= Makita´s last blog ..Scandinavian Heritage Camp ~ Day 4 =-.

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  4. Keeley says

    July 19, 2009 at 11:05 am

    What a fabulous idea! I’d never heard of this before. It looks so fun!

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  5. Maria says

    July 20, 2009 at 12:01 am

    Neat! It would be difficult to find that kind of paper here. Hmm, but trying different kinds of colored paper might do — an experiment is brewing…
    .-= Maria´s last blog ..Making history come alive =-.

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  6. Melissa says

    July 21, 2009 at 12:43 am

    Hi Jimmie,

    This is very neat! Would you mind telling me how long you had to leave the paper and leaves out in the sun? I’d like to add this idea to our new conifers unit we are working on.

    Thanks!
    .-= Melissa´s last blog ..Have You Seen the Gorgeous Sky? =-.

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    • Jimmie says

      July 21, 2009 at 9:36 am

      The directions for the nature print paper say to leave it in direct sun for two minutes. Then you drench the paper with water and let it dry.

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  7. *Kris* says

    July 21, 2009 at 10:49 pm

    My mom gave us some of this paper, too, and I have been meaning to use it…(LOL!)

    Of course it has not exactly been sunny enough to do so here in New England this summer, and it’s pouring today…

    Hmmm, maybe so leaves from our garden plants might be interesting?
    .-= *Kris*´s last blog ..I Guess Education Is an Atmosphere… =-.

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