The students created an art project using 200 ring pulls and 50 bottle caps to promote recycling. They cut and painted an old cloth to create a 30x60 cm canvas. They then drew the recycling symbol with pencil and marker. Next, they sewed the ring pulls onto the cloth in a relief pattern and stuck the bottle caps around the symbol and cloth. Their goal was to raise awareness of reducing, reusing, and recycling among other students and remind them of the three R's. They enjoyed making their picture and learned about the importance of reducing waste.

1. The three Rs' picture
Pedro Fernández, Rocío Tudela & Ángela Aguilera
IES PEDRO JIMÉNEZ MONTOYA
Introduction How we made it!
We had to do a project with caps and ringpulls. Methods Tools
so we needed something shoking. We thought in - Firs of all we looked for a cloth to reuse I
some ideas like: bracelets, curtains, lamps, spinning it in our project.
tools, rings, neckglaces, games for children,
- We collected the ringpulls and the caps
handbags or bags and dresses…And after days of
during three weeks because we needed
thinking so much we found it! We decided to do a
two hundred ringpulls and fifty caps.
picture.We called it, the three Rs’ picture because
we will represent the recycling symbol. It is not - With all our mean materials we will cut
easy if you are not an artist but we’ll work hard to the cloth with a measures of 30x60
create it. centimeters.
- After this we drew the symbol with
Purpose
pencil and then with a permanent marker
We want to make aware all the students that
- Then we painted all our main materials
recycle is very important in our lives because
in green colour.
thanks to this we can reuse things that we didn’t
- Some time afterwards we sew the
need anymore and we can obtain new things from
ringpulls in the cloth like in relief, it
the other ones. Also is used to think what we can do means that first we sew one ringpull but
with something we didn’t need anymore and get it the second one we sew one more and in
Conclusion
without paying. But we can’t forget that first of all - We needed a permanent marker and a We enjoy doing our picture, thanks
the third one we swe two more.
we have to reduce and then we will reuse and pencil to draw the symbol. to this we realised the importance of
- Finally we stuck the caps all around the - A scissors to cut the cloth.
recycle less things. That’s why we used use the cloth and around the symbol too. reduce,recycle and reuse. It was too
- A A needle andthread to sew. difficult to do it but in two weeks, two
recycling symbol because it remembers you the rule
- Paints and brushes to paint. days each week, we finished it. WE
of the three Rs : reduce, reuse and recycle. We hope - And glue to stick the caps. hope you like it!
you understand this.