Recycled art is easy to produce. Students can make beautiful, interesting objects and find out that using recycled materials is fun, and useful. This art project is perfect for students in grade 5 - 8. Teachers can teach about pop can recycling in a new way with this easy recycled art project.
Materials:
Several Pop cans, tape, wire, hot glue sticks, hot glue gun, hole punch, shoelaces, etc.
This art sculpture is made from old pop cans along with other materials to teach concerning the reusing of bright metallic materials. Students should bring their very own materials. Teacher can demonstrate purchased pop can purses or any other articles to supply the scholars with ideas. The students need basic cutting and gluing skills to create their sculptures.
Step one - Preparing the Students
Utilizing a 'Conservation" theme, brainstorm with the students about ways we are able to conserve energy, resources, heat, and water within our world today. Demonstrate articles made from recycled pop cans such as purses which are sold online or perhaps in stores. Ask students what they would envision in a perfect, green world in the future. Once their ideas are focused, keep these things produce a theme using pop cans to show a conservation lesson. They can show purchasing from a local market, using alternative transportation, conserving resources, recycling or perhaps composting.
Step 2 ' Prepare the types of materials
Cut apart a pop can using scissors and lay the pieces flat. Show how the pieces can be flattened, curled, folded or bent to shapes needed. Use a hole punch to get holes within the can to piece them together. Use leather or perhaps a shoe lace to stitch together pieces. Tape or use hot glue to attach other pieces together when needed to create a sculpture. The tabs from the pop cans can also be strung together on wire for handles or to create jewelery. The pop cans could also be used in their original shapes with pieces added or glued onto them. Students need to be creative within their utilisation of the pop can parts.
Step 3 - Mounting the job
Show students that the things they mount the sculpture on is also a statement. For instance, if creating a shoe, what's the 'footprint" they want to leave on the earth? Would the shoe create a big dent in the mountain of garbage created? If creating a hat, what exactly is it protecting? If developing a purse, so what can we carry in it? What material would an individual use for mounting on?
Step 4 - Conservation Message
Have the students give their art sculpture a title. Write the data on the 4 x 6 index card. Make suggestions apart from "Pop Can Hat". A more creative title might be "Pop Can Protection for the Earth". The title might be "Walk the Walk" for a recycled pop can shoe. The card should then state the medium used and so the students name and grade.
Then ask the students to write on another 4 x 6 index card what they need people to learn from their project. The title may teach about conservation, such as a pop can bench titled 'Waiting for the Green World". The bench implies that if more people made a decision to use alternative transportation like a bus, they could conserve resources for example gas and lower carbon emissions.
Step 5 ' Displaying the skill
Make sure to display the student work together in a showcase or on tables; show the index cards they've written. The title might be 'The Art of Recycling" or 'Conservation: Thinking Away from Box (or can)" or 'Pop Cans, Pop Art, Popular Culture". This could be in conjunction with a science display on conserving energy, or perhaps an earth day display.
Use Pop cans of the identical brand such as coke and have students create shoes, hats, purses and bags out of the same can to co-ordinate the appearance.
Only use one theme but different pop cans for that theme. For instance, if you are designing alternate types of transportation, create shoes, busses, bus stops, bikes, paths etc. all out of cans. The sculptures may or may not be usable. For example, a shoe covered in pop cans is usable much more than a shoe produced from only pop cans.
Create houses or articles made out of the pop can such that the can looks large when compared to size of the folks utilizing it. A pop can house shows how large the issue is to get people to think outside the box.
Use the lesson to teach students the benefits of recycling. Ask them how the project may help environmental surroundings by recycling or re-using pop cans in a new way. Demonstrate can and bottle recycling when you are performing this project by recycling bottles and cans within the classroom and school daily.
Make use of the lesson to teach about how exactly shoes or purses are created. Create grocery bags, shoes, hats and purses using their company types of materials that can be used again rather than plastic.
Use the lesson to show or display other cultures that create art and crafts from recycled materials. A number of this art may be bought from stores or online. Discuss what fair market price or fair trade is.