9-12 Week 3: Adrian

Project: Magazine Mosaics
Supplies:
Paper Plates
Permanent Marker
Magazine Clippings
Used Calendars
Glue (diluted)
Paint brush
Scissors
After drawing a simple image on the back of the paper plate, they will use the magazine clippings and fill it in. In the end they will have created a beautiful paper plate mosaic.


Project: Atomic Starburst Wall Decoration
Supplies:
5” Styrofoam disc (possibly something different)
Drinking Straws
12 milk caps, per child
Decorative paper (scrap booking kind with patterns
Hot glue gun and White glue
String
Using some materials that could be found around the house, we will construct a piece of wall art.


Project: Recycled Model Car
Supplies:
Empty juice boxes
Egg carton
Aluminum foil
Disposable plastic cups
Plastics straws/ spoons
Markers/ Tape/ Glue
Other recycled items
All the supplies will be laid out for children to come and gather their recycled materials. They will then create their own recycled cars by using the material for different parts of the car. The spoons can be made into people for the car.


Project: Eco-Bot
Supplies:
Shoe boxes
CD’s
Gadgets and Gizmos
Who’s its and What’s its
Hot glue and White glue
Children will tap into their science fiction side and build robots out of recycled objects. This could also be encouraged as a class project where they will work together to create one super or two, depending on the number of children.


Project: Recycled Wind Chimes
Supplies:
Plastic containers (various sizes)
Metal washers (various sizes)
Metal screw hooks
Clear fishing line
Hole puncher
Other recycled material
The wind chimes will bring anyone’s back or front porch to life! Using metal recycled objects will make it ring out beautiful chimes when the wind blows. The meal screw hook will go in the top container, a piece of clay and be attached in the inside to hide the screw.

Project: Plastic bag holders
Supplies:
Large Juice/Milk cartons
Yarn (various colors)
White glue
Most families save plastic shopping bags, this project will give them a home. After cutting the top of the carton, to allow the bags to go it, and cutting a half circle on the bottom , the only thing left to do is decorate! Use the yarn to create a pattern by cutting strips the size of the side and gluing them to the side. When they are finished a Handle will be a put on for easy hanging.


Project: Mini Vase
Supplies:
3 mini plastic cups
Glue
Tissue Paper or fabric/ribbons
Sand or pebbles
All you need are 3 plastic cups. Fill the bottom cup with sand or pebbles. Glue top to top the next cup then bottom to bottom for the last cup. Next decorate and just like that you’ll have a very cool flower vase. You could use paper cups but I find it better to use plastic if you plan on putting water in for flowers.

Project: Recycled Plastic Collage
Supplies:
White tag board
Variety of plastics (different colors)
Glue
Pencils
Instead of letting the plastic bags go to the landfill, open their eyes to how we can create art from these. Let them sketch out a picture and then use the plastic bag clippings to “paint” it with color.