Building a Diorama - Part #7b - Basic Ground Cover Sizing

Basic Ground Cover Sizing:  Now that we have produced a variety of colored sawdust it is time to sort the products into usable sizes, ie, Course, Medium and Fine.  For this I use two tea strainers, one finer than the other.  This can be a bit messy so use the cookie sheet as your base.  Place a spoonful of one colored sawdust into the course strainer, shake lightly and use your finger or spoon to work the sawdust through the strainer until little more goes through.  Dump the remains into one of your small container - this is your Course.  What has sifted through is Medium and Fine.  Continue sifting until you have sifted all your first color and dump the tray into a container.  Now take the finer tea strainer and repeat the operation with what sifted into the tray, dumping what remains in the sifter into a second small container - this is your Medium.  What has sifted through into the tray is your Fine, now stored in the third small container.  You now have three small containers of one color green sized into Fine, Medium and Course.  This simple procedure is repeated for each color you have selected.   Note:  I often re-sift the Course and Medium to collect more Medium and Fine.