Bottle Cap Collections

The last of the Children’s Recycling Workshops on Saturday was dedicated to turning junked containers into collection boxes for bottle caps. We decorated old paint buckets and cardboard boxes with foil, bottle tops, and paint and gave them a new lease on life. Several parents took home containers with promises to place them in schools and nurseries, and of course we are keeping at least one here at the studio.




Please keep your bottle caps – ANY bottle caps. We need metal and plastic, large and small; caps from soft drinks, from shampoos, from water and milk bottles -- for a future project. If you see a collection point in the community, please use it; if not, bring your caps to the studio – or make a container yourself for use at home. As you can see from the pictures, creating them is a lot of fun!

Bird Feeders From Milk Cartons

Saturday February 13th saw the second in a series of six recycling workshop for children under the auspices of the Art and Wild Nature Foundation at Turtle and Moon. It was a peaceful workshop: most of the Paphos action that day was focused in town where the annual Carnival Parade was pounding the streets, but the six children and two adults who met at the studio were happy with the unaccustomed quiet.



We had gathered to turn milk cartons into bird feeders. Lise showed the children the example, and got out the acrylic paints, and as soon as everyone had chosen their colours, they got to work. When the paint was dry, Lise cut holes in the cartons with a craft knife, punched dowels through to act as perches, and attached wire hangers. The children decorated their feeders with coloured decorations, filled them with sunflower seeds, and hung them on the nearby trees.