She could strip the paint off the pencil and unfasten the eraser, if she wanted.

“It'll take a couple hours even after you're much more practiced to claim the wood of the pencil, because wood has complicated cells in it. And then if you tried to reshape it, it would turn into mush.

“I think I should show you forcepatterning next. Could you turn some glass into this shape?” He points at the pair of glass disks he used to demonstrate with.