BLOTTING PAPER BUTTERFLIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 249, 21 October 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)

BLOTTING PAPER BUTTERFLIES.

Take a sheet of wliitc blotting-paper and draw a buttorfly, as shown in the diagram; get your local chemist to prepare you a §mall bottle of the following mixture: Chloride of cobalt, chloride 01 sodium, and gum arabic —he will do this for twopence or threepence.

Sop.k your blotting-paper butterfly (after having cut it out with a pair of scissors) in some of this solution and allow the butterfly to dry in a cool place. Now bend the wings of the butterfly up into a natural "hovering" position and put a touch of scaling wax in the middle to make it stick to a piece of card. In dry weather your butterfly will appear blue, in wet weather it will turn pink, and when the weather is changeable it will be purple. A change from the. butterfly is a flower which can be easily cut out from white blotting-paper if you follow the. diagram. Your flower will behave exactlv in the same way as the lmtter-

fly. The more ingenious of you can think out lots of other forms in which to make your own individual weather prophet, such as a chameleon, a cat or dog, or even your own drawing (in pencil) on a piece of the white blotting-paper soaked in the mixture; if you then frame .your drawing you will have a unique weather prophet all your own.