Apr 28 2008
Emphasizing “reuse” in a fun way
Over the weekend, Aurora attended a birthday party for one of her friends (the first of 3 parties over 3 consecutive Saturdays). What was neat was that it was located at a place called The Scrap Exchange in downtown Durham. Their goal is to promote environmental awareness through creative reuse of what would normally be considered junk. Their party room had big barrels full of various pieces of scrap - foam shapes, empty CD cases, loose pieces of wrapping paper, small corks, and a bunch of other things that I didn’t recognize from coming from something specific.
The kids were encouraged to wander aimlessly and just pick out scrap to use to make an art project in conjunction with scissors and tape (no glue, bad for the environment). The kids (and the adults) had a blast. Joy even found a scrap piece of gray tile that she may be able to use for a backdrop for photographing her jewelry and it only cost her a quarter.
This place is a great to emphasize the fact that a lot of things that we throw away could probably be reused in a creative way.
