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Week four. We got on well today, finding textures in the courtyard garden and making paper from a variety of recycled materials. We also made another long composite sheet to hang with the others we had made last week. The materials we used to recycle into new paper included brown envelopes, pages from discarded books and money. The last was the most popular with the children. The idea of sticking hundreds of pounds worth of bank notes into a blender and seeing what happens is quite appealing! Before you go away with the thought that this art project is possibly over-funded if we can casually pulp money; be aware that this is pre shredded by the Bank of England and can be got from them free plus postage and packing! Monday saw me washing the shredded bank-notes in biological washing powder to remove the characteristic smell and grime off the paper. So I can also add money laundering to my CV.