{"id":11305,"date":"2024-03-04T13:04:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T18:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=11305"},"modified":"2024-03-05T22:18:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T03:18:39","slug":"plant-presses-and-nature-collage-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2024\/03\/plant-presses-and-nature-collage-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant presses and nature collage art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m in the process of developing curriculum for a couple of different eco-spirituality programs I’ll be co-leading this summer. One of the people I’ll be working with, Jessica, a former environmental educator who’s now the DRE at the Northhampton UU congregation, floated the idea of pressing plants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, plant pressing is usually done to prepare specimens for an herbarium. But Jessica found a lesson plan in the Project Wild Aquatic curriculum book which uses a plant press for a process art project. You assemble a collage of aquatic plants (or really, any kind of plant) between sheets of porous paper, and press in a plant press. As the plant is pressed, the paper absorbs some of the colors of the plant. Wait a week till it’s dry, and you have a cool collage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This activity kind of resembles flower pounding (see lesson plan #24 on this webpage<\/a>). It also introduces participants to the use of a plant press \u2014 a standard botanical tool\/process \u2014 which is a nice addition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still working on refining this activity for use with kids in a summer camp setting. We’ll see where this leads. In the mean time, a couple of resources: Plant presses for the classroom<\/a> | Herbarium Supply Co.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Update,<\/strong> later the same day:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are my instructions for a cheapo plant press, cobbled together from several online sites:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019ll need fifty 3×5 file cards, two pieces of corrugated carboard cut to 3×5 inches, and two strong rubber bands. Place a flower in the middle of the stack of file cards. Put the rubber bands around everything (see the drawing). Let dry for a week or more. When dry, glue the dried flower to the index card using white glue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Sketch<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Snowdrops are starting to bloom outside our front door, so in a couple of days I’ll be able to give this a try in the real world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(And here’s the follow up post where I actually make one of these.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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