Total Time Needed: 1 Hour
Mushrooms may be great on pizza and burgers, but place a few on a piece of paper, and they're in-spore-ational!
Materials
- Fresh, whole white or portobello mushrooms
- White paper
- Drinking glass
- Non-aerosol hair spray
Instructions
- To make spore prints, carefully remove the stems from the mushrooms. Expose the gills by using a knife (a parent's job) to trim back the lower edges of the caps.
- Place the mushrooms on a sheet of paper and cover each one with an inverted glass. Let stand overnight. The mushrooms will release spores from their caps to create distinctive patterns.
- Carefully lift first the glasses, then the mushrooms, to reveal the spore prints. To preserve the designs, coat with non-aerosol hair spray.
