Have you ever wondered what to do with your styrofoam meat trays and plastic cottage cheese lids? Rather than putting them in the trash to add to the ever-increasing landfill, try recycling them into ART! This craft couldn't be simpler, and uses items you already have in your house and yard!
What You Need:
- Styrofoam trays from meat, fish, vegetables, or fruit
- Plastic lids from containers such as cottage cheese, yogurt, and coffee cans
- Sequins, buttons, beads, and/or old, broken jewelry
- Colored fuzzy pom-pom balls
- Cut-up pieces of paper, ribbons, yarn, sequins, colored foam shapes, etc.
- Objects from nature such as rocks, shells, dried flowers, feathers, seeds, etc. collected or bought at a crafts store
- Yarn, string, ribbon, or wire for hanging the plaques – optional
What You Do:
- Have children choose their favorite objects and glue them onto the trays.
- To hang their artwork, attach a loop of yarn, string, ribbon or wire to the back of the plaque with glue or by punching two small holes on the edge of the plaque and tying on the loop.
For more great ideas, take a look at Francine Foster's book, Children's Adventures in Art.
