Use Items Around your own Home for Art Projects
Kids love art projects, so why not use items within your own home to help with the art project basket or tote. You can find thing lying around or that were once used for something else to add to that art project basket and here’s how:
• For Paintbrushes: Use clean roll-on deodorant sticks, old tooth brushes, sponges, old pencil erasers.
• For Canvases: Use newspaper, cardboard boxes or inserts, paper bags, old tarp pieces, left over wrapping paper, or even left over carpet remnants.
• For Templates: Use plastic containers or lids for circles, an old flip flop and cut out pieces and designs from the foam of the shoe bottom, jug lids, old leggos for squares and even square pieces of wood.
You can get creative with just about anything lying around your house, your garage or even in your yard. If you take a trip around and use a bit of imagination, anything can be use to paint with. And it’s fun to reuse items and show off how you reused them to others.
*Natural and Sustainable Living Tip: If more people walked or biked to their two mile or less destinations there would be less need for foreign oils and less carbon emissions. But since many depend so much on their car there are other ways to help with this issue: Avoid idling in drive through lines, park and go inside instead of sitting and waiting in your car. Carpool whenever you can and take public transportation instead. If you cut just 20 miles out of driving a week you can save up to 1,000 lbs. of emissions a year.
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