Check out the giveaway below!
If you have kids, you have Elmer’s glue in the form of glue sticks or glue bottle. My kids are notorious for leaving off the glue stick caps or using way too much glues from the glue bottles. I can’t recycle either the glue bottles or sticks. (Even though the glue bottles are a #1 or #2, my area only collects #1 or #2 plastic soda bottles.)
For those who are uber-recyclers, Elmer has teamed up with Walmart to take back those bottle and sticks! Although the program is geared towards teachers, encourage a teacher at your school to sign up. Then, offer to take care of the recycling part for the teacher. It is easy! For instructions on how to belong to the Elmer’s Glue Crew Recycling Program, see here.
Want to participate? Make sure the bottles and glue sticks are cleaned out before putting them in a box. Once the box is full, attach the return label and take it to one of the people greeters at Walmart between April 22, 2009 and the end of school. (See the instructions, here.)
Once you have signed up, you are in the program forever. You don’t need to re-register each new school year. I will be asking my art teachers if they will sign up and perhaps have a central location for collection.
So, what happens to the glue sticks and bottles once recycled? The recycled bottles and glue sticks are made into garden equipment, packaging and even park benches. (See here on the recycling process.)
To get the glue stick rolling here in honor of Earth Day, Elmer is giving away a gift pack of a supply of elmer’s glue in a small backpack to five lucky Green Talk reader. (See picture above. A $50 retail value of glue!) Many of you might be thinking why I would be giving away a plastic giveaway. For the simple reason, that I want you to know about this recycling effort. Less trash in the landfills is a good thing. So, if you want to enter, here are the rules.
- You must be over 18 and live in the US or Canada.
- Leave me a comment here telling me about your favorite art project as a kid or adult. If you don’t have one, just say so.
- To double your chances consider joining my Feedburner email list or subscribe to my RSS feed. Both subscriptions are listed on the upper right hand column. Be sure to come back and leave a separate additional comment to tell me which one you joined. If you are already a member, just say so.
- To triple your chances of winning, twitter about this contest and come back and leave a separate additional comment of the url (weblink) of your twitter comment.
- You must enter by May 1, 2009 6 PM EST time to win. A winner will be chosen at random on Monday, May 4, 2009. This is a short contest! Good Luck everyone!
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I like getting handprints from my girls. It’s something that you can put up and show them when they are older. It’s hard for them to believe that they were actually that small. thank you!!
My favorite art project was a ceramic statue that I painted as an adult a few years ago.
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My favorite art project as a kid was tissue paper stained glass.
My favorite craft as a kid was decopage. Still do it!
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I mad an awesome pinata in Spanish Class…years ago.
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I tweeted the giveaway.
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In Jr High I had the grand illusion that I’d be a great sculptor. I had a special project in art class to create a bust, and spent a ton of time on it. What I found was that it wasn’t easy for me. But it is my most memorable project.
I loved to make the maps using salt and paste. You could make the mountains and rivers etc…ahh nostalgia
scrapbooks, especially my daughters, they really get into it
A watercolor paint class I took a few years ago
loved to fingerpaint and loved when my kids did this…
As an adult I have enjoyed painting but I haven’t done any for awhile. As a kid I would say it was ceramics.
I always loved building anything out of popsicle sticks
My favorite art project, which I share with my kids a lot, is collage — we love to get old magazines and glue sticks and go to town making all sorts of collage pictures together!
I love scrapbooking and card-making!
My favorite art project has been scrapbooking, especially now since the arrival of our first Grandchild. But I have a craft room, so you might imagine, I have loads of crafts that I love and share. I owned a Gift Basket business for 15 years and hand crafted many baskets. Great idea on your prize, thanks!
My favorite art project is making collages and assemblages,
so glue would come very handy!
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I don’t have a specific favourite project but I do find that the glue is great for both scrapbooking (my hobby) and notebooking (my kids’ favourite part of homeschooling!) Thanks.
i loved doing paper mache!
they dont that anymore in schools!
I like doing mosaic!!
My favorite project was sewing beads and sequins onto a pair of converse shoes for a class project we actually got to choose ourselves
I don’t have a favorite, but my kids love any chance to paint or work with clay!
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making our own cards & flyers
I loved decopauge…thats probabaly not the right spelling?
My favorite art project is making potholders
As a child, I loved to make paper lanterns.
My favorite art project is doll making. I am making an early American doll for my granddaughter.
I used to love to glue all different kinds of pasta to cans and then spray paint them gold. Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this giveaway!
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My fave art project usually involves some sort of sparkle. I like glitter projects and Christmas ornaments that have sequins. Fun!
I love making collages out of magazines with my grandkids.
I don’t have a favorite art project.
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craft time
My favorite project was cutting out pieces of colored paper into made up “flowers” and gluing them onto a background, at school, and one could be sent in to be on television. I noticed that all the kids were using smaller, horizontal pieces of paper, so I chose a larger piece of paper and did it horizontally! My flower was chosen to send in to TV!
The teacher placed us all around a TV set to watch the show, and mine didn’t come up and didn’t come up and I thought it wouldn’t, and then at the very end the teacher put it up on the easel all by itself (!) while talking about the end of the show and it stayed on during the ending credits (as if it were the best one)! I was SO happy, and later in life did a LOT of gluing since I started showing collages professionally!
I always loved making collages.
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Congrads to Debbie, Jay, Sara, Mrs. Mommy, and Carolyn! Let me know how you like your backpacks of glue.
For the rest, thanks for entering. All of your comments were great. More giveaways so stay tune and recycle those Elmer glue sticks and bottles. Anna
I am a Camp Fire leader and I work with all ages of children all year long… My favorite thing is watching that child finally finish what they where makeing and look at it like WOW I did it all by my self..
thanks KIM
Hmm… My favorite project of all time would have to be making paper meche collagas! I really got into them when I was a kid, they would end up being like a magazine with 30 pages in them. I wish I still had some of my old craft projects from back then. Good post, I have a friend that I am going to pass this along to thats going to love this! Looking forward to your upcoming posts.
My favorite art project is using glue stick for Card making. I think it really fun as I design cards for different occasions. Although giving cards has been randomly rehearsed nowadays, I still find it artictic and rewarding as I draw personal touches on them.
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