School Project | Gabby the Garbage Monster

The is Gabby.  She is a Garbage Monster.  In the Kindergartner's words, "This is Gabby. Gabby travels the land and picks up trash. In her adventures she finds lots of garbage on the ground. She picks it up and recycles what she finds."

We had lots of fun today creating this garbage monster for A's school project.  The whole school is creating monsters in celebration of Earth Day this week.  They have implemented a school wide recycling program.  Not only are they encouraging everyone to recycle inside the school but they have huge bins outside for families to include their recycling.  To top it off the school gets money for everything we add to their recycle bins.  So our family has officially started to recycle everything that we can.  The only problem we have right now is what to do with everything until we go to the recycle bins at the school.  But this is a good problem to have.

The Kindergartner and I worked on Gabby together.  We went through our recycle bin and picked out the items to include.  She had saved the tinfoil for over a week so we can use it for her hair.  She cut the tinfoil into strips so she could have long hair.  Then she started drawing, coloring and telling me how she wanted everything.  I was in charge of gluing because we used HOT glue.  I love the little touches that she included - like eye lashes and shoe laces on the shoes - she is into the details.