Leaf Prints 



A great stimulus to tree study in fifth, sixth and seventh grades is 

 the making of a portfoHo of leaf prints of all the trees in the region. 

 This portfolio may be the property of the school and each pupil 

 contribute a print of special excellence, or what is far better, each 

 pupil may make a portfolio of his own. 



The outfit for making leaf prints is simple and inexpensive. 

 It consists of a tube of printer's ink or a cup holding a portion of 

 the ink which almost any newspaper ofhce will contribute to the 

 cause of education. We use an old paste jar for our ink and we 

 bought enough ink to fill it for fifteen cents. Next we must have a 

 flat, smooth surface on which to spread the ink ; a slate, a piece of 

 plate glass, or what we have found more practicable, a large square 

 pie tin serves this purpose. Then we need a six-inch rubber roller 

 such as photographers use for mounting prints and this at a photo- 

 graph shop costs twenty-five cents ; a bottle of kerosene to dilute 



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