Several weeks ago I sent home a "homework" sheet with my 3rd & 4th graders.  The sheet explained that we'd be creatin...

This year's art show is REDUCE, REUSE, RE-IMAGINE! (a recycled materials art show)  I've been wanting to create bottle cap fish...

I may add black glitter in the center of the flowers, but we're calling these done!  Cutting the butterfly from the diffuser paper ...

These are truly only temporary bottle cap decorations!  I'm going to place them around the art show to add to the foodie y...

I received such a sweet & encouraging e-mail today from S usan Sprunger, an art teacher from Missouri.  She was inspired by the bot...

Getting ready for an art show is never easy, but I seem to like to make it exspecially hard on myself! I decided I'd have my 1st gra...

One of my blog readers asked me how the bottle cap mural was "holding up" out in the elements.  GREAT QUESTION!!!   Thi...

Finally...the bottle cap snowman is complete!!!!  This 5 ft tall papermache based bit of wonderfulness was created by using tacky g...

I arrived at school before 7 this morning so I could "install" the mural before the Mayor came.  My amazing friend who cut ...

This 1st panel is complete for the most part.  We are leaving the gray capless.  It is an exterior house paint(about three coats to protec...

So after school yesterday I spent about an hour in Home Depot reading the back of every bottle in the caulking and adhesive section.  I know...

So I am going to try a bottle cap mural this year (hopefully this fall if I can get enough caps collected).  Have any of you done this proje...