What better way to greet Spring than with a beautiful garden? Look close at the papers and you will see we used cardboard food boxes, straws and lids to create a fun flower filled garden.
We started by talking about what we might find in a garden. Ground, flowers, fences, bugs and more. Then we took a look at our supplies. The children were excited to find cheerios and spongebob boxes. They were surprised we were using these instead of paper.
I admit, I am a craft supply hoarder. I save all our bright colored food boxes. I just fold them up and put them in a file. I also save lids. The straws are actually new, I didn't recycle used straws! I just thought it was a fun element to include.
Now the kids get busy. They created beautiful and thoughtful works!
You will need:
-Cardboard food boxes
-Blue construction paper
-Glue sticks and Elmer's glue
-Scissors
-Straws and lids
Some of the work we created:
12 comments:
More "Cerealism"! I love it! I posted about this recently, but if you don't know what I'm talking about, check out pop artist Michael Albert. Your kids will get a kick out of his work, especially finding that a "real" artist uses cereal and candy boxes to create art collages.
These are great! I always hate to throw away packages too!
These look awesome! I'm thinking we need to do some flower crafts around here.
This would be a great Earth Day craft in April!
Very fun and whimsical! The kids create and benefit from all that cutting and gluing skills without even realizing it!
Your kids did a great job with these flowers!
Awesome! I am excited to do this with my children. Thanks for sharing.
Gorgeous. Cereal box flowers, what a super way of reinventing junk! :)
Thanks everyone! I hope you enjoy making these as much as we did! :)
Erin
Thanks for posting this beautiful project! My students enjoyed doing it and we had many complements on the pictures as they lined the hallway!
http://blogs.southfieldchristian.org/pixelsandpaintbrushes/2011/05/30/recycle-flowers/
Your trash flowers make me bloomin' happy! Will do with my 2nd graders. Jayne
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Love this! Can't wait to do this in my kindergarten class!
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