Just in time for the holidays, we held a special ReCycle, ReGift camp for students after school on our December Early Release Day. This camp was led by Liz McDonald, Meredith O’Reilly, and Elizabeth Conti. Our camp goal was to reuse various recyclable materials to make nifty gifts for friends and family. Take a look!
Here are bottle caps reused as glass charms, key chains, and backpack decorations.
We also blended recycled paper scraps into pulp and mixed in some native Texas seeds to make plantable ornaments.
Though I’m showing a holiday tree here, many students were inspired to make flowers, snowmen, airplanes, cars, stockings, stars, and more! Once dry, they became gifts that could be planted in the garden to grow butterfly and hummingbird plants.
Our students also worked with aluminum cans and old CDs to make special leaf wreaths.
Thank you to our school administration for letting us host this special camp. Thank you to our Caraway families and faculty for their contributions of recyclables. Thank you to our wonderful volunteer parents who helped at the camp. Thank you to our students for being so creative and enthusiastic. And thank you to our camp leaders for working so hard to make this camp possible!
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