Recycling in the Art Room: Saving the Earth, increasing environmental empathy Art Room Recycling Needs: & raising conservationists one art project at a time! From your home: What do we do with all of these materials? 1) Paper Bags: used for beautiful brown paper for a variety of Take a look below! projects and as paint palettes. 2) Plastic bags: I am going to experiment with making book covers for art journals. 3) Egg cartons: Used as paint palettes and Thank you so bead organizers. much for supporting the art Collagraph owl program! 4) Jug caps & soda bottle caps: I have an idea printmaking! in the works for a mural or garden I appreciate it SO much!! sculpture……but I need a lot in a variety of colors. 5) White wire hangers: make in to mobiles. Cardboard back of paper packs 6) Odd bits & ends of scrapbooking materials: used for prints. scraps of scrap book paper, old stamps, and unwanted stencils & scissors…anything really. 7) Cork: for making clay stamps. Paper bag palettes & marker stamps. 8) Clean baby food jars and glass olive oil jars- for a variety of projects. 9) Old records-I want to make clocks! 10) Old frames-to up-cycle and display Paper bag canvas for Aboriginal Art. student work. 11) Fabric scraps & buttons of all kinds. From you classroom: Turning old markers into watercolor paint/inks in 1) Old markers: paints and caps old baby food jars. 2) Old wet wipe containers 3) Old crayons: lots of things! 4) Dull pens: clay tool 5) The cardboard backs of construction paper packs & box lids. Using white wire as a part of a clay mobile owl sculpture. .