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Ms. Maas from Homestead PA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Turning Trash to Art and Saving the Environment

My students need four heat guns along with attachments.

  • $451 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

My students are becoming eco-warriors. My students have been creating dialogue about environmental issues through their art.

This year it has been my mission to create environmental awareness amongst my students.

Plastic bag weavings, to poison dart frog sculptures, and endangered species masks using recycled paper are only some of the projects we have done so far. Students have collected over 2000 juice pouches to recycle since the beginning of the school year. They are eager to learn and I am eager to provide them with more opportunities to learn and create art with and environmental statement. My students come from multiple school districts within ten miles of the charter school where I teach. This creates a vibrant school population across an urban setting. The school is Title I and we serve students that typically come from low income situations.

My Project

This project will allow students to create art for the environment and further their environmental impact by raising funds to donate to a foundation. Students will collect and re-purpose plastic bottles from the cafeteria and home into flowers. My classes will use these heat guns to melt and mold the bottles into flowers. Students will create beautiful bouquets from plastic. Typically flowers are sold at our school for Valentines Day. This is a perfect opportunity for students to sell their art and further their impact by donating the money to an environmental cause.

This is a project that will keep on giving in years to come since the heat guns are a nonconsumable resource.

Students will create a statement through their art and create art for a cause.

Ms. Maas
Grades 6-8

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
R&F ENCAUSTIC TOOLS/HOT SHOT HEAT GUN • Blick Art Materials $65.20 4 $260.80
R&F ENCAUSTIC TOOLS/HOT GUN/REDCTN NOZZL • Blick Art Materials $9.20 4 $36.80
R&F ENCAUSTIC TOOLS/HOT SHOT GUN/FAN NZL • Blick Art Materials $11.20 4 $44.80

Materials cost

$342.40

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.14

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$382.54

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$67.51

Total project goal

$450.05

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $450.05

13 Donors

-$450.05

Donations toward project cost

-$382.54

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$67.51

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 $0.00

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