Making blot-pictures

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Part of The Young Citizen: The Magazine for Young People

Title
Making blot-pictures
Language
English
Year
1941
Subject
Blot-pictures.
Rights
In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
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MARCH, 1941 THE YOUNG CITIZEN I I.~ MAKING BLOT-PICTURES ~OME very curious insects are shown ·above. It is a very simple matter to make such blot-pictures as these. Simply get a heavy pen that uses considerable ink. Then write your name or any other name you think of. Before the ink dries, fold the paper in the middle of the written name so that the ink will blot each side. Unfold it, and behold! you have a curious looking insect which would baffle any scientist in its classification. Study the . abov.e pictures. Then· make some. PICTURE-FRAMES FOR THE SCHOOL OR HOME WE are going to ·learn how to make frames for little pictures or photographs, so that we can hang them up and become the possessor of a small picture-gallery in front of the picture, and a piece of pasteboard (taken, perhaps, from an old pasteboard box) will be at the back. of our very own. . It often happens that we have a dear little picture· on a Christmas card or a kodak picture that we would like to keep. It is the purpose of this article to tell you just how to frame ·such pictures in an inexpensive way. Go to a paint store and get some squares of glass. Also a dozen small brass rings. At a drugstore or stationery store get some binding tape (or passepartout) and some paste. You will also need some · '" white unruled paper, a pencil, a ruler, a penknife, and some pasteboard. r f !. Thw mount, · y j ' Now find your picture and cut it the size· of one of your pieces of glass-or it can be a little smaller. Th_ e glass will be -·· • . : ..