We did two recycled art projects in my middle school elective classes, to celebrate Earth Day. My sixth graders are on a field trip, but when they come back we will be making centerpieces with recycled materials. For the first project, my students and I collected empty plastic bottles (tons of them) from our homes, and from other faculty and staff. Then we painted and cut the bottles, and attached them on chicken wire to make a collaborative hanging sculpture in each class, in the style of Dale Chihuly's glass chandeliers. My students always love looking at Chihuly's work, and after they did, they had a lot of ideas! Students of each class decided on a color scheme for their sculpture. One class decided on a pastel color scheme, another chose cool colors, and the last one decided to do rainbow colors arranged in the proper order. Collectively, we decided to hang them outside of the art trailers, so they would function as shades for the people who sit outside in the hot Miami weather! The other project was inspired by a huge, inspiring, worldwide public art project called the Cool Globes, that began in Chicago in 2007 to raise public awareness of solutions to global warming. After much brainstorming and thinking, students came up with a design for their own mini-globe that creatively illustrated at least one solution to climate change. Then we built the globes using paper mache, paint, collage and a range of other materials, depending on their individual message. I did not get a chance to photograph all of them before they took them home, but here are a few. The young lady who did the globe in the first few pictures even won an award for her work! So proud of her and all of them for their ideas and hard work.
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