Learning about pollutants and how to save the earth by turning used material into artworks

Children love art and craft. They love adventure, they like trying out things ,they like experimenting and doing things with their hands

While teaching this child about pollution, waste disposal and ways of caring for our environment, we talked about recycling used materials, we talked about how some used materials can be turned into artworks and by doing these we save our environment and protect the ecosystem.

Like every other child out there, Jade can be very inquisitive and curious. She loves art and the practical parts of learning. She wanted us to save the earth(environment), she wanted us to do a practical. she wanted to know how we could turn used material into art.

To satisfy her curiosity and desire, and also to make our lesson much more interesting and fun. We decided to make art from some used material at home.

For our artwork, we used plastic bottle cover. Jade had learnt that Plastics are one of the major pollutants of our environment because they are non- biodegradable ( that is they can not decompose / decay )
and for this reason they fill up dump sites and a lot of them is taken by rain and wind into the ocean.

Recycling or reusing plastic materials is a great way of protecting our environment so we chose to use plastics.

We both set out to look for some plastic bottle covers and gathered all we could find at home. It was quite a fun exercise.
After which we thought of what kind of design we would make. This was another tough time for us. Jade made things a bit difficult. Her thoughts and choice made me laugh. She chose some very complex and almost unachievable designs

She said she wanted us to design a mermaid using the plastic bottle covers. She suggested some other funny and complex ideas which I didn't accept and after long talks and deliberation , we finally decided to make a love shape.

We chose the love design because the reason we are doing this artwork is to demonstrate that we love and care for our environment (earth) and we want to protect it and reduce the way it is been destroyed and polluted everyday.

It took us about two days to do this artwork. Infact we finished in the night of the next day.We used just a few materials and tools for it.
Amongst the tools and materials we used are ;

• scissors
• Ruler
• bottle cover
• glue
• cardboard paper.

Making the artwork was really easy, we first made an outline using the bottle cover. After we had gotten the love shape, we just followed the same pattern and glued the other bottle covers.

As you can see here we used 3 colours for the artwork ; Red, Blue and Yellow.