Science Arts, Water Cycle Terms and Paper molds

Today, at Walter Hall , the kids and us had a great time tearing up paper and putting it in a blender to get ready to create a slurry.  While they were tearing up paper , Megan and I taught the kids about the water cycle.  I say Megan and I  because Megan is already very familiar with these terms, Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, runoff, ground water, etc.  I told them what each term meant and then related it back to our paper molds.  After this, we turned on the blender and watched our paper turn into a slurry.  It was awesome to see the eyes of 12+ kids as this turned into a slurry.  It was amazing. At first we got green, then it was read. And then, DJ was determined to make blue by adding just blue paper. This was the of our paper making as miles put in chunks of paper, gobs of it, that were not torn into pieces. This got wrapped around the blade and the machine started smoking. Luckily , we were ready to move onto a new activity. Also, asking questions led me to realize that one of the kids didn't know that paper came from trees. As a teacher, one needs to always be looking out for misconceptions or wrong information.  Sometimes kids just get concepts in their heads' wrong or someone told them it. I told him that paper comes from trees and he looked at me very baffled. I think we should have a meetup discussing the process of paper making.