Natural Dyes. by: Kawena
I really liked making the natural dyes out of the lipstick plant, uki uki and olena. People can also make curry out of Olena thats why when we got back to the classroom from recess it smelt like curry! I learned that to make dye out of the lipstick plant you crush the individual seeds instead of the seed pod. I didn’t think it was going to make a dye but then we mixed it with water and poof it was dye like.
Natural Dyes. by: Carson
Yesterday we learned how to make dyes. We learned what plants the Hawaiians used to make all these different dyes. I learned which items made a certain color. We also got to make a paint brush out of a hala fruit. We rubbed it on the concrete until it got soft.
Papermaking. by: Shannon
I thought the papermaking was cold and I thought the Hawaiians had great ideas of how to use plants for everything. But it was also kind of disgusting, I didn’t like the feel or the stinky smell. The smell was really bad. But I really liked pounding and cutting the plants. I also enjoyed that the Hawaiians only used nature instead of using the un-nature or “bad” earth things that we use today. I am excited to see and use my paper tomorrow. I liked that people bring back what the Hawaiians did and teach it to people so they can pass it on.
Papermaking. by: Garrett
Today I learned that it takes a lot of time and effort just to make one pier of paper. We had to shred ginger and cut the stem. Then we had to break apart cereal boxes, next we had to pound the ginger stems with a rubber hammer. Finally we had to blend everything so it would be like strings. We got to strain it through a sponge and put it on the window to dry. We used a roller to get the paper off the sponge. Thats how many steps it takes just to make on piece of paper!
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