I Love Scraps!

I'll scream it from the mountain tops! Scraps are simply the BEST!

I love that freeing feeling that comes from using materials that aren't "precious." The expectation to make something good/right disappears and kids love using household materials in new ways.

How can a recycled material be changed and used?

---egg carton lids become bases for sculptures

---corks become towers in mini-cites

---bottle caps become watering holes in animal dioramas

As an art teacher I'm always concerned with waste, because at the studio we use SO.MUCH.STUFF. I even save the circles from hole punchers to make confetti to use in collage. Extreme? Probably. Worth it? Absolutely! And my heart feels better keeping things out of the landfill fill for just a little but longer.

There's more where this come from!