ART FROM THE RECYCLING BIN
Free art materials are everywhere! This blog is dedicated to exploring and encouraging the use of found art materials. As an art therapist who works with children and their families, I am especially interested in the possibilities for incorporating creative play into everyday family life. Using materials we find around us can make the process fun, lively, personal, affordable, and environmentally responsible. So get out there and start collecting garbage!

8/8/11

Cardboard Tubes

Those tubes inside of toilet paper, paper towels, wrapping paper, etc. can be turned into so many things.  I work in a child welfare agency, so there is a medical clinic just down the hall from my office.  They know my scrounging ways, so started saving the cardboard tubes from inside the paper rolls that cover the examining tables.  And the kids took it from there!  They were drawn to the idea of painting the tubes, and the resulting communal hanging sculpture hangs over my office desk.



  

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