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Reduce consumer waste!
Get the kids to go on a door to door recycling drive. Ask neighbors for discarded household materials that can be drawn together for a craft day of fun. Here is a list of some of the things thing to look for.
Common household items can absorb packaging postconsumer waste. Get your kids collecting for some real rainy day or weekend craft day supplies.
With a little ingenuity a ton of craft fun can be had with no expenditure and a clear conscience keeping the curbside containers less full. The message this sends kids is that recycling and fun add up.
Keep a box in the kitchen for contributing to this effort. Print a list out and distribute to friends. When the neighborhood comes together for a Saturday of craft fun, the whole block can get in on it. Take a picture or get creative with videos in the resulting tableaux. Collecting materials that would otherwise be thrown out for re-use is recycling at its best, but by engendering another tier of consumer level use, it’s sustainable living at its best and highest practice.
1. Bottle Caps
Bottle caps can become painted faces or wagon wheels when attached to box forms or even yogurt containers. Make a special Formula one race car or moon vehicle, a truck or a spaceship using weird shapes.
2. Cardboard boxes
Multiple uses and tons of fun can be had from cardboard boxes of all sizes.
3. Matchboxes
Matchboxes can be painted or wrapped in foil to make tiny bits of furniture or decorated jewel boxes.
4. Wire
Any size wire or pipe cleaners can establish a funny detail or texture on craft animals, buildings, or structures.
5. Egg Cartons
6. Empty Toilet Paper Rolls
Use the paper rolls that come from empty discarded toilet paper for construction of buildings and funy shapes and people.
7. Yogurt Containers
Yogurt containers (with or without lids) can make great features or stands for anything you can imagine. These round or conical yogurt plastic containers make excellent fort or castle turrets when covered with foil or painted.
8. Pudding Containers
Trimed in cellophane or covered in re-use foil, or just painted these can make great feature add-ons for almost any puppet, robot, or diorama scene.
9. Buttons
Buttons make clever eyes or decorations on miniature furniture for dioramas or puppets.
10. Bobby Pins
Just as bobby pins become too loose to really work well, they become perfect for decoration and scraping glue or painting or carving clay.
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