Recently (or almost!) Finished Art Units using Recycled Materials!

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Recently (or almost!) Finished Art Units using Recycled Materials!

Find out more about these recent GREEN works of art made by the talented students at Briargrove. Check them out here on the Briargrove Art Blog!

4th Grade - Birds made from recycled materials!!! (images of finished birds soon to come!)

5th Grade - Animals made out of cardboard food boxes!!!

2nd Grade - Toilet Paper Roll Garden!!!

Kindergarten - Clouds made from cardboard and other recycled materials!!! (Finished clouds coming soon!)

3rd Grade - Plants made from paper scraps!!! (Will post finished plants this week!)

Great work! The students are loving it and really making an impact on their environment!

1 comment:

La classe màgicaJanuary 19, 2010 at 2:15 PM
you can see the super recycled insects in
http://manualescanigo.blogspot.com/2009/03/insectos-de-p5.html

;-)

Hugs from Barcelona
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The 4 R's!!!

Reduce - use less of something

We can reduce the waste of materials like paper towels and water in the art room by not using as much!

Reuse - use something again

We can reuse items like sponges over and over to clean up in the art room instead of cleaning with paper towels, which can only be used once!

Repurpose - use something again, but with a new purpose

We can repurpose all kinds of materials to use for art-making - like using an egg cartons as a paint pallet or bottle caps to make eyes on an animal!

Recycle - use trash to make something new

We can recycle some items we no longer need, like plastic bottles, aluminum cans, glass jars, paper and cardboard!

Green Materials

This is list of items we collected and used to create art in our classroom last year. These materials had already served their original purpose and were going to be discarded. All items had to be rinsed of any food or detergent particles in order to be used in the classroom! (Materials listed in blue were used the most!)

-Bottle Caps and Lids

-Soda Tabs

-Cardboard Tubes

-Thick and Thin Cardboard Boxes

-Egg Cartons, especially Styrofoam

-Packing Peanuts

-Tape Rolls

-Glue Nozzles

-Marker and Pen Caps

-Dried-up Paintbrushes

-Old Rulers

-Plastic Containers of all sizes

-Netting

-Fruit Cartons

-Thread Spools

-Ribbon and Yarn Scraps

-Fabric Scraps

-Corks

-Buttons

-Old Toys, Computer Parts, Odds and Ends

-Magazines, Phone Books

-Postcards, Greeting Cards

-Paper Scraps

-etc.