Plastic Bottle Bug Carrier

To house their bugs, some of the children made bug carriers by using large plastic juice bottles. We cut out a square, hot glued some mesh and made a frame out of fun foam. 

The whole school wanted one! Got the idea from http://crafts.kaboose.com.

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Cardboard Sticky Note Holders

My group made this craft for Mother's Day. We decided to make sticky note holders reusing and recycling  materials we had :cardboard, magazines and odds and ends . The moms loved it! . 

It is our take on an original idea from http://blog.creativekismet.com. 

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Egg Carton Bugs Craft

For the first day of spring, we made all kinds of cute crawly bugs. We use egg cartons for the body and wings and then painted them bug colors.

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Cereal Box Easter Hen

I got one of these from a fellow teacher as an Easter gift filled with chocolate eggs. Sorry to say it was not one of my creations. It is just too cute not post!

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Easter Fabric and Yarn Baskets

For Easter  we made nest baskets out of fabric and yarn pieces. We ripped strips of fabric and wove them around a cardboard template. For a fluffy effect we wove in some yarn. Ready for Easter Eggs!

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Bean and Pasta Mosaics

My kids painted reused cardboard (rescued from the trash bin)  two-toned and created these landscapes. Some decided to paint the cardboard all black and make a space themed painting.

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Paper Valentines

We made paper Valentines out of painted butcher paper (bulletine board paper). We punched holes all around and then laced them with left over wrapping ribbon. We left one side open for stuffing with recycled computer paper! They ended up looking like heart pillows.

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