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Many years ago when we had a big exhibit on china we made "muffins" out 
of wax.  We gave a muffin to each student to carve a chinese letter into 
and they could use that as a stamp on rice paper.  You might want to 
make a set of stamps to have on the floor that kids could use to stamp 
names or words.
I remember it being quite popular.
Lynn

Daniels, Alissa wrote:

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>We at Boston Children's Museum are getting ready for a new exhibit about China. Our plan is to develop lots of related program in all our content areas, including science. I know China is responsible for a whole lot of inventions and engineering ideas including papermaking, printing, suspeension bridges, as well as a lot of advances in medicine, cartography and navigation. 
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>I"m looking for help in turning some of these ideas into managable floor activities. For example, how does one do Chinese papermaking? (as opposed to making paper from other paper, which a lot of us know how to do) If you have knowledge of some great China originated science or technology, I'd love to hear about it and/or how you would do a hands-on activitiy with it.
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>thanks!
>AD
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