To make our straw "quill" pens, we sampled several different types of straws: a bubble tea straw, a normal straw, and a stirrer. We cut the tips at an angle to mimic the quill pen.
I also used coffee and tea to age some watercolor paper. To do this, I let the paper sit in cooled black tea (or coffee) for a couple of minutes.
Then, we set the paper out to dry on some pieces of paper towel.
Here are the results of our paper dying. Left- Original paper, Middle- Tea dyed, Right- Coffee dyed
As you can see, coffee made our paper quite brown.
And how did our homemade "quills" work out? Check them out below. I first used all four writing instruments to write in print and then to write in cursive.
Top line- Written with a real quill
Second line- Written with bubble tea straw
Third line- Written with normal straw
Fourth line- Written with a stirrer (Eek! Please excuse my scary monster handwriting. It was really hard to get the ink to flow out.)
