Trash to Treasure Project My son has been assigned a trash to treasure project for school. He can spend no money but must make something decorative, functional, or educational. Any ideas? It has to be original thats a big part of his grade. He is in the third grade and we have two weeks :). Thanks in advance! |
Sorry I am not creative at all. All I can think of is making a dog toy out of a water bottle and a sock. Hopefully some creative people will respond. |
I had my 3rd grade church group make painted rocks that looked like lady bugs. Just need to find large roundish rock, paint it black, then add the red in two half circles on the back. Then I had them use pencil eraser ends to make white dot eyes, antenna and a smile. When the red paint dries, they go back and make black dots on the wings (find a small dowel or soemthing that is the right size so all they have to do is dipo and dot). Easy as can be. I guess you would already have to have the paint around to meet the "buy no supplies" rule. But it is just the 3 colors, so maybe you or a friend does? For fall, we made home-made potpourri. I had them each go on a scaveger hunt around their neighborhood to find any sort of natural plant. Flowers, leaves, seed pods, nuts, anything you can turn into potpourri. When they all brought in their contributions, we spent some time identifying and admiring. Then I put them into a hug pot along with some old potpourri I had around home. I added a few drops of scented oil and stirred it all up. Then I gave each child a small square of fall colored material (made from old clothes I had in my "Goodwill bag")one fall leaf from a craft package that I had punched a hole in, and a piece of that natural twine. Then they each got a scoop of the stirred up nature's potpourri and tied it into their squares, tying the leaf on it as they went. Made a nice little bundle of natural, good smelling potpourri they could share with their family. Most of them were from some old orange cloth and they really looked a lot like pumpkins when they were done. Speaking of pumpkins. We also took a roll of toilet paper, wrapped about a 10 inch square of orange cloth around it, tucking the extra material into the center hole. Then, they twisted green paper into astem shape and poked that into the hole -- instant pumpkin! I loved the 3rd graders. They were still wide-eyed curious but more adept at doing simple crafts. Great age! |
My students used to have to do this when I taught 4th grade...some things they made were a tin can man out of empty soup cans, sardine cans (for feet), etc., musical instruments like with 2 aluminum pie plates attached facing each other with rocks inside, steamboat out of shoe box with paper towel roll for smoke stacks and toilet paper roll for wheel in back. If I think of any others, I'll post more. Hard to remember after not doing that for a few years. |
Why not look around your house and find something that you don't use anymore. Then think of a way that he can change it to make it functional or decorative. Sounds like the spirit of the project is about taking something that is headed for a landfill and repurposing it. |
Thanks so much for the ideas. I am going to run them by Cade this weekend and see what he decides :) Have a good weekend! |
You could get an old shoe box and decorate it to look like a pirates treasure chest. Then create a crown and jewels out of cardboard and bottle tops, then it really WOULD be trash to treasure! :D |
I am thinking of the dog sweater made from the sleeve of an old sweater I seen on here not too long ago. I want to try this myself. Then, he could sew on a few buttons and the educational part would be that he learned to sew on a button. Also thinking of taking a jar, decorating the lid and making a savings bank or doggy treat jar. Not too original, but functional. He can make you a recipe holder from a clothes clip, or chip bag clip and some cardboard. Can always make a magnetic picture frame for the frig. If you have any old tile from any home improvements laying around, a little felt on the back and you have some nice coasters. He can make you a coupon book of things he can do around the house for you out of scratch paper with maybe 10 coupons inside. Ha! Or even for his teacher like one day he may clean the chalk board....etc. |
How about coke can flower pot?:) cut the top off and punch some holes in the bottom for water. punch a small hole on the two opposite sides of each cans(make 6cans) and connect them with a string and knot it / you will end up with circle shaped connected cans. You can put different flowers or plants on each can. |
my brother ans sister are always making things out of stuff im about to throw away my brother once took the tops off of two pickle relish bottles taped them together and gave it to my sister to keep her midol in when you open the top thear is a hole just big enough for a pill |
An easy one is to take a recycled can (like a soup can or bigger) and punch a design in it. Then paint it up for halloween and make it a luminaries. Tin Can Halloween Luminaries - Halloween crafts |
Bird houses can be made from plastic milk cartons...fun to decorate. |
How about decorating used bottles? Here are some examples: http://imagecache2.allposters.com/im...001970-001.jpg http://manolohome.com/wordpress/wp-c...ue-bottles.jpg http://hgtv.sndimg.com/HGTV/2009/06/...es_s4x3_lg.jpg http://www.favecrafts.com/master_ima...%20Bottles.jpg Decorating Glass Bottles: How to Turn that Juice Bottle into a Masterpiece - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com http://www.canadianfamily.ca/blog/fa...16-253x300.jpg |
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