Building and Designing with Recycled Materials

I often let my students build with pattern tiles if they finish their work early. This year, after having collected lots and lots of cool marker caps, glue caps, and tape spools, the students and I decided that building structures and creating designs with these colorful and diverse caps would be a fun GREEN option!

The students thoroughly enjoy doing this when they get the time. If you don't have it in your budget to purchase pattern tiles, start saving marker and glue caps! I think this green option is even better than the original!

An Artistic and Eco-Friendly Gift

I am so excited that my students are already so creative and enthusiastic when it comes to being green. Just a day after I taught her class, one of my students went home and made this. She reused cardboard from a food box, cut it open, folded, and hot-glued it to make a really cool hanging pencil cup. She also attached some safety pins so I could hang something from it. Isn't that creative? And useful!


Great idea Caroline!