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Book Review of Beautiful Junk: Creative Classroom Uses for Recyclable Materials

Beautiful Junk: Creative Classroom Uses for Recyclable Materials
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Don't throw it away! That carton can become a table easel or a train car. Your students can turn plastic soda bottles into candlehorders or terrariums. And paper tubes can have a second life as kazoos, maracas, or bird feeders. Beautiful Junk clearly and simply explains over 200 creative ways to recycle boxes, cans, flyers, and other throwaways into classroom equipment and materials for student projects. The projects are amply illustrated, and many diagrams and patterns are provided, too.