Recycled Art Exhibition 2012

The day was finally here!

April 21st, 2012

Curtner Elementary's first ever

Recycled Art Exhibition 

Before the kids got to work on their projects I sat them all down and we talked about the reason why we are using recycled materials, why we are are recycling and how they can change things and help the environment.

Looking at a lll of these wonderful art pieces I feel very good about relaying the information to the kids.

My girls now want to keep every straw, paper, cardboard box and so forth ...

Give a child a card box and they are happy (sometimes they have more fun with the box than with the toy that was inside).

It was so wonderful to see that the kids could take all these random items and create such amazing art pieces.

The Robot suits were especially impressive. 

These kids used everything they could find, designed and constructed it all on their own (while the moms were busy setting up or prepping). 

It took a whole lot of creative and constructive thinking to come up with something like this ...

                                                       

It was also great to see how the older kids would help the younger ones with their creations.

Team work was definitely another impressive act these kiddos showed.

All art pieces were displayed in our Multipurpose Room and set up by grade and project.

This table is the Robot Station

(designed and created by the Curtner PTA kids)

This table displayed robots made out of all kinds of recycled materials and LOTS of aluminum foil :)

Love this guy!

These globes were created by our 4th graders, in an in-class project and turned out AMAZING!!!

The 6th graders made replicas of teachers and friends along with the logos of our sponsors for the event.

Mrs. Long. 

LOVE the dress :)

The 3rd graders used all sorts of boxes (cereal, pasta, tissue, ...) to create shadow boxes.

I love the Wolf box!

VERY creative!!!

1st and 2nd grade made tons of TP people and they ALL turned out GREAT!!!
This was such a fun table!

Hello egg-carton-snake :)

The TP train was also a huge success by the kids.
We'll definitely display that in school or in our new art room.

The newspaper-dolls by the 2nd graders turned out AMAZING!

The most moving story must have been the little doll below, with the three red buttons.
She was created by a very loving and caring brother for his little sister.
He said that she had been asking for a doll for some time.
All volunteers were very moved by this story! What a GREAT young man!!!

3rd grade also worked on recycled paper dinosaurs, which was one of my favorite projects.
They all turned out super crazy and cool!

Shark attack!

Mr. Chompers

The latest dino discovery, the iPad-taurus :)

Kinders had take-home projects and when they came in on Thursday we were all stunned by what these little people (with a wee bit of help from mom and dad maybe) came up with.
AMAZINGLY creative and VERY cool indeed!

The bird-feeder.

The plastic-bottle-car, even the axle was made out of recycled materials.

Easter egg flowers.

Newspaper flowers.

Bottle cap penguins.

LOVE this one!
A Checkers set made out of a yellow shopping bag and beer bottle caps as game pieces.

The milk-jug-bunny :)

And the tissue-box-monster.

Flowers made out of soda cans.

A vase made out of a soda bottle and newspaper flowers.

The cardboard space ship.

Bravo to all of our Kinder kids (and their parents :) !

Another 4th grade created these huge Earth Day murals .
(The pdf for this project was purchased at one of my most favorite School Art Blogs Art Projects For Kids.)

Our 2nd graders surprised us with this amazing "Thank You" poster and a 'Thank You" booklet which made all of us volunteer moms teary eyed!

Center stage took our HUGE paper-mache globe, decorated with beer bottle caps to lay out the continents.

This truly was a LABOUR of love and resulted in many, many, MANY hot glue gun burns.
BUT once it hung up there, in the middle of this amazing exhibition, we licked our wounds and knew it was well worth it :)

Another 6th grade project.
The students recreated the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle logo ... all in green of course.

Bottle-Cap-Art by some of our 5th graders.

Allied Waste Sponsor Logo.

Valley Crest Sponsor Logo.

Bottle Cap Art "We are Curtner"

Devcon Sponsor Logo

Silver Creek Sponsor Logo

We also added a border of handprints of all Curtner students, cut out of newspaper and magazine print.
This is a huge border, all hands on board!

The 6th graders also created our Curtner school name with recyclable materials.

The landscape of the US, filled with "trash" so to speak. 

A very impressive and loud speaking peace of art.

Some 6th graders had created "collection buckets" for the Art Program.

They were awesome!

Some read:

"Please help kids in need of drawing!"

"Give the gift of love money!"

"Only US currency!'

And one had a "penny slot" and a "dollar slot".

They sure made me smile!!!

We also added some "bling" to the trees in our court yard with decorated CD-suncatchers and decorated lids of all kinds.

At the end of the day everybody felt a huge sense of accomplishment (and very tired) and our school got a much needed make-over!

Thank you to all students and parents, teachers, friends and families who came on Saturday to view the exhibition and donated their time and helping hands to clean up Curtner and our surrounding neighborhood.

Earth Day Celebration was a HUGE success and I hope we can turn this into a Curtner tradition and have another celebration next year again (relax volunteers, we have ONE year to prepare and get ready :)

I am ending this post with a picture of three happy PTA kiddos, after a nice spray from Mrs. Kim.

Curtner Elementary school was just hit by a massive Recycled-Art-Attack :)