ART DRIVE
I am a very BIG believer in recycling and teaching kids the value of recycling. Not only can it influence creative with the variety of uses for the items but it also helps reduce waste and help make our planet greener. Win, Win in my books :DThis is a list of recycled or gently used materials that I am looking to collect:
MAKE SURE ITEMS ARE CLEAN AND SAFE FOR CHILDREN TO HANDLE
(NO SHARP EDEGES)
- Vegetable nets
- Bubble wrap
- Magazines
- Sequins/Jewels
- Thread/String (thick and thin and various colours)
- Ribbon
- Washers, nuts, fastenings
- Pop tabs
- Bread tags
- Aluminium foil
- Corrugated cardboard
- Patterned paper
- Gift wrapping paper
- Textured paper
- Tissue paper
- scrapes of shiny wrappers
- Fabric
- Pipe cleaners
- straws
- buttons
- clothes pins
- Pompoms
- Feathers
- Felt
- Velcro
- Plastic lacing/string
- Makeup sponge
- Loofah
- Packing peanuts
- Cotton balls/pads
- Fake fur
- Q-tips
- Pasta (spiral, elbow, fusilli, cavatappi, rotelle, rigatoni, shell, farfalle, penne, rotini, rocchetti)
- Egg cartons (paper and plastic)
- Yogurt cups
- toilet paper rolls
- Bottle caps (Metal and plastic)
- Loose (mismatch lego pieces)
- shoe boxes
- Juice/drink containers and water bottles (washed)
- Metal cans (NO sharp edges)
- Beads
- Burlap
- paper cups/styrofoam
- empty cereal, food boxes
- Milk jugs (washed)
- lids from plastic containers
- Muffin wraps/cups (new)
- Plastic forks, spoons, knifes
- Wine corks
- wood disks, squares, small blocks (smooth, NO rough edges)
- Balloons
- coloured tape
Science Drive
I am looking to collect the following items for Strong&Stable Structures unit:
- Miniature marshmallows
- clay
- Wooden stir sticks/craft sticks
- Toothpicks
- Paper cups
- Newspapers
- Cardboard
- Boxes
- Cord/twine/string
- Long bamboo sticks/thin sticks
- paper plates
