sun prints

Ever do these?
I remember loving them when I was a kid. I mentioned them to Ba awhile back and Voila! She found them for Christmas.

The weather has been so amazing lately, that I had Samantha outside helping me with her first batch of sun prints earlier this week.

They're still lots of fun, and easy.

Step 1: gather objects to print, and arrange on the paper




Step 2: wait for the sun to do it's magic


tick, tick, tick... ready!


Step 3: Rinse

Step 4: dry flat

They end up looking like the very first picture when dry. The sharpest images come from pressing a flat object (leaf, etc.) under the glass, but 3-D objects make cool shadows.
Fun, quick project for kids...ok, maybe the mama likes it even more.