Building from UPcycled Materials

TRASH to TREASURE! 

Time to get inspired to gather up all of your 'good' trash and recycle goodies and see what you can create in the process. I have some new images from my recent Author-Illustrator school visits and I've gleaned back through my files for some 'oldies' to bring you this UPcycle RoundUP! 

KINGDOM of GOOD MANNERS!

Look at this fantastic community 'sculpture' created in preschool last spring! I am just beginning to go back through my camera's memory cards -- to share the sights of the last season. The ingredients are a wide variety of bits and pieces of UPcycled materials from the recycle bin. 

How many different contributions can you identify? 

Can you spot the oatmeal box? The toilet paper rolls? The countertop samples? Cork stoppers? Wood pieces? Mirror squares? What else? Put it all together and you've got a memorable, "Kingdom of Good Manners!" 

This kingdom was on display in the welcome area of the Vero Beach Community Preschool last spring. 

Next up are some Ohio bugs on the prowl. 

Created from the packing material between apples in a box. 

This time last year I shared these next images from the Chicago Concordia Early Learning Center. 

It seems fitting to re-group them with the kingdom above. 

Tissue paper, duct tape, cellophane colors and some paint details. 

Styrofoam packing pieces and pipe cleaners! 

Here's the outcome of a guest post here from my blogging friend, 

"Carrots are Orange." 

Here's a reference to an earlier article that created 

"Monster Puppets" 

from the interior bag of chips. 

Here are some earlier rockets in flight! 

Here's a 'reminder' of the SHAPE PEOPLE I saw during my tour across 
REGGIO EMILIA, ITALY. 

Next up. 

A couple of 'organizational' UPcycled examples. 

These crayons are housed in reused 'icing' containers. 

Here's an incredible collaborative sculpture. 

Needless to say, the rainbow spectrum captured my heart immediately. 
This is HUGE and took up an enormous wall above cupboards at CSG in Columbus. 

So save up the flotsam and jetsam.

Gather plenty. 

Save some more! 

When you have a truly HUGE collection, then its time to enlist a professional. 

Here's a professional mural now at home in a Worthington, OH elementary. 

It had first graced the walls of the Columbus Conservatory. 

YUP. A recyled UPcycled mural. 

This is the ultimate of UPcycling! 

You owe it to yourself to go to the earlier article and see the other scads of photos I took during that visit.  

By all means. 

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