While out and about in our thrift travels we found this Klutz book from 2003- Squashing Flowers Squeezing Leaves. I think we picked it up at the consignment store and not the library booksale and it’s quite a find!
The directions for flower pressing- which she also tried last year using instructions from her American Girl’s Handy Book– a total treasure of a book if you can find one!
Newspaper at the ready and the flowers will go between the cardboard that comes with the book- she rubberbanded it and switched out the paper after five days.
I knew R11 would enjoy this book for her birthday- she’s already been trying some things out.
R11 loves to make things with nature items and we’ll see how these first flowers turn out. She received a mixed media art journal for her birthday which I’ll be sharing more about very soon. She’s already done some nature printing in there. A lot of her gifts are worth a post of their own to share what she’s been up to with them. We are in full summer schedule here and I’ll be sharing about that as well.
We really enjoy the flower squashing book too.