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Trash to Treasure THEME: Reusing materials before they are thrown away can conserve landfill space and natural resources.
GOAL: Students will realize they can reduce the trash load by redefining waste as a potential resource.
METHOD: Creating a class treasure chest
SUBJECTS: Art, language arts, social sciences
SKILLS: Creating, observing, making value judgments
MATERIALS: Trash can; old box; scraps of fabric, yarn, paper, ribbons, etc.; egg cartons; glue; scissors
TIME: 45 minutes
Getting Started
Does everything that we throw away have to be trash? Procedure - Fill the trash can with the various scrap items and explain to the class that these are things that would normally have been thrown away, never to be used again.
- Have the children come up one at a time and ask them to select several items out of the trash can. Have students use these materials to create whatever they want-a picture, a sculpture, jewelry.
- With the leftover materials decorate the old box to make it look like a treasure chest and have the students come up and place their new "treasure" in the chest.
- Point out that the garbage can is now empty. The students have both reduced the amount of garbage that has to be disposed of and reused it to make something new.
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