Field trip to SCRAP

We took our class on a field trip to SCRAP, all fifteen kids and four adults on the city bus. Keri Piehl, their wonderful Education Director was our host, and had & rich a varied bevy of projects for us. We built structures, discussed the exhibit of masks made from found materials,



and made journals from recycled paper, a rubber band and a dead pen. We decorated the paper by rubbing it with crayons over objects we found in the store that had an interesting texture. Then, folded the paper & punched two holes in it. Then we fed one end of a rubber band through the hole, put it around one end of our pen and then did the same to the other end of the pen. Presto! A beautful journal made from nothing.



My personal favorite activity was the scavenger hunt. Each child was sent into the store to find an object described on a card: a cat toy, something a clown would use, something to help you get organized, something to make you taller, something to help you cook, etc...It was really fun to see how the kids interpreted these things and the creative solutions they found.



I wonder what card this child got?