Elmer’s Glue Sticks and Bottle Recycling Program & Giveaway

by Green Talk on April 22, 2009

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.

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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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1 Sarah Hirsch April 29, 2009 at 9:08 pm: I don’t have a favorite art project, but as a kid I always enjoyed working with clay.
2 Sheila R April 30, 2009 at 12:47 am: My favorite craft as a child was taking little squares of tissue paper and wraping them around the eraser side of a pencil and dipping them in glue then putting them on a piece of paper and making a picture.
3 Laura Emerson April 30, 2009 at 4:15 am: Our son wanted a train set so badly one year for Christmas and the money just was not there to buy one. My husband and I felt so bad as it was the only thing he had asked for and he believed that if he believed hard enough in Santa he would get one. My husband and I decided to build one for him. Every night after work when our son was asleep we would work on the train set. We spent hours and weeks carefully trying to make a train villiage, train set itself and even a conductor and passengers. We used popsicle sticks by cutting them in half and using whole (I think we cut our fingers almost as much as we cut the sticks!) and made an entire village. We then painted each piece and used pieces of tree branches for trees and made leaves and and tree tops out of play doh. The train was made out of wood but we took wheels from some of our son’s old cars so the train would move. We even made passengers from wood. We took a little whistle and put a string on it and put it on the train so the train would have its whistle. On Christmas morning my son went to the Christmas tree and found his train all set up. With tears in his eyes he looked at us and said “I just knew Santa would bring me my train! He played with that train for years and when he was a little too old for it he carefully put it on his shelf. Of all the toys throughout the Christmases he still says that the train set was the best gift he ever received!
4 Kelly F April 30, 2009 at 4:23 am: I always loved making anything out of paper mache when I was a kid. It was just so messy and fun!
5 Erma H April 30, 2009 at 7:20 am: I would love the chance to win, thanks.
6 Linz April 30, 2009 at 11:41 am: As a child my favorite was making paper mache (newspaper and flour-glue over a blown up balloon) puppet heads.
7 melissa goodwin April 30, 2009 at 12:32 pm: I don’t have a favorite but my 4 year old and I enjoy experimenting all the time. Anything with her is my obvious favorite.
8 Paula H April 30, 2009 at 3:28 pm: I’ve enjoyed doing Orgami sent I was a teen. I’m now teaching my kids how to do it.
9 Paula H April 30, 2009 at 3:28 pm: subscribed to your feed.
10 Christine April 30, 2009 at 3:29 pm: My favorite art project is coloring with my son. We made a calendar that I hung in my office…it is one of my prized possessions! Thanks for the chance!
11 Christine April 30, 2009 at 3:29 pm: I subscribed for email updates. Thanks!
12 d.e. manning April 30, 2009 at 3:30 pm: my favorite is whatever i’m working on right now!
13 Justine April 30, 2009 at 3:31 pm: My fave art project was when my daughter and I made a piggy bank out of a discarded oatmeal container, it turned out super cute
14 Steph April 30, 2009 at 3:32 pm: My favorite art projects are the ones Ive gotten from the Family Fun site. They have a great selection.
15 Ann April 30, 2009 at 3:48 pm: I always loved those projects where you glued on tissue paper squares in little crinkly puffs.
16 Ann April 30, 2009 at 3:49 pm: I subscribed to your RSS feed.
17 Ann April 30, 2009 at 3:51 pm: I tweeted: http://twitter.com/quelleheure4/status/1662190050
18 Tammy April 30, 2009 at 4:34 pm: My favoite activity that I remember from when I was little was using watered down glue to glue tissue paper to a glass jar to make a candle holder. I think we did this in art for every holiday.
19 Tammy April 30, 2009 at 4:36 pm: I remember taking watered down glue and glueing tissue paper to glass jars to make candle holders. I think we did this in art for every holiday.
20 Tammy April 30, 2009 at 4:39 pm: I am a new RSS subscriber.
21 Tammy April 30, 2009 at 4:40 pm: I tweeted.

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22 Michael April 30, 2009 at 5:18 pm: Not so much an art project as woodworking shop. We made snow skis from layered wood bonded together with glue. I ‘feel’ your reaction – we didn’t think so either… guess that’s why we were the students!
23 Ellie W April 30, 2009 at 5:30 pm: My mom and I always made little ghosts that we would hand outside for Halloween every year. Neither one of us was very crafty but that was one thing we did well.
24 Amy April 30, 2009 at 7:02 pm: I loved crafts a a child (still do!) I used to make greeting cards for family members, especially my mom. I also liked making popsicle stick boxes, using lots of Elmer’s Glue.
25 Lisa G. April 30, 2009 at 7:07 pm: I love decorating old frame that I find at garage sales. I love finding unique ways to decorate them and I love having personal frames!
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26 Lisa G. April 30, 2009 at 7:09 pm: I’m also an email subscriber. Thanks!
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27 Lisa G. April 30, 2009 at 7:13 pm: I Tweeted this giveaway. http://twitter.com/lisalmg/status/1663901471
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28 Julie K April 30, 2009 at 7:34 pm: It’s messy, but we like to do papier mache. Thanks!
29 amy delong April 30, 2009 at 8:10 pm: My son likes macaroni art!!

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30 Sally April 30, 2009 at 8:14 pm: I loved to make May baskets. It was a way to share with my neighbors something that I could make myself.
31 Beverley Justice April 30, 2009 at 8:27 pm: I made a pair of earrings for my mother when I was in first grade. That’s been a long, long time ago…
32 Jodene Gildea April 30, 2009 at 8:33 pm: I loved doing paper mache as a child, I haven’t tried it with my daughter yet but I will.
33 Lucynda Zimmer April 30, 2009 at 8:37 pm: In the 6th grade our teacher asked us to make a list of all the kids in the class and tell her what you would give that person as a gift.

I still remember it to this day we had to draw what we wanted to give each person. What a great idea.
34 Debra F April 30, 2009 at 9:08 pm: I’m not a craft kind of mom, but I do like creating creatures with kids with modeling clay. Thanks for the giveaway
35 Terry C April 30, 2009 at 9:14 pm: I used to like making pictures with macaroni, beans, etc glued on paper plates. thanks!
36 Sarah Z April 30, 2009 at 9:52 pm: I use to love pottery class – the wheel was awesome!
Thanks
37 Cynthia Mercado April 30, 2009 at 9:55 pm: I made a paper mache skunk in 4th grade. I am not very artistic but enjoyed that project.

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38 Douglas April 30, 2009 at 10:22 pm: loved painting… thank my teacher !!
39 Patricia April 30, 2009 at 10:44 pm: I have No art talent. One of my daughters does, tho. I can recall being so envious that other very youngsters could color their pumpkin so much better than I .
40 Jammie April 30, 2009 at 10:48 pm: We love doing art in my home. I home school our daughter and we do lots of art at home this would be great. My favorite art project was a littlest pet shop pinata I made for my daughters birthday the bad part was i put many hours into it and on the day of her birthday we discovered the mice got it and it was no good.
41 DANIELLE WALDO April 30, 2009 at 11:12 pm: My favorite art project was when i was 11 years old. I am now forty one and i have done it with each of my three children.
PAPER MACHE PIGGY BANK
1 steralized empty bleach bottle, 2 toilet paper rolls, glue, sizzors, newspaper, water color paint, 1 pipe cleaner. Cover bottle in strips of newspaper soaked in glue paper mache mix, place bottle on its side with handle faceing up, cut paper rolls into half attach as feet to bottom cover with glue paper mache, add ears with paper and cover with mache. let dry paint, poke hole in bottom for tail made out of pipe cleaner. cut slit for coins to go in.

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42 Cassy May 1, 2009 at 12:34 am: Doing paper mache in Catholic grade school.

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43 Sonya May 1, 2009 at 1:15 am: My kids and I love making tissue paper flowers!
44 Sherri B. May 1, 2009 at 1:28 am: My favorite art project as a kid was making Christmas ornaments. We made all different kinds. Some of them would be as simple as drawing a star with glue on construction paper and putting glitter on it to define it or as complex as making little houses out of toothpicks glued together. Toothpicks are not the easiest to work with when you have little hands! My mom still puts them on the tree every year and I love just looking at them and having pleasant memories of a simpler time. Thanks!

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45 Lori Z. May 1, 2009 at 1:59 am: We’ve been doing a lot of paper mache/starching stuff to make nests and masks and I love some of the things that the kids have made.
46 Laura C May 1, 2009 at 3:32 am: I like to decorate envelopes.
47 Laura C May 1, 2009 at 3:32 am: I have rss feed
48 Laura C May 1, 2009 at 3:38 am: I tweeted
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49 Angie O May 1, 2009 at 3:45 am: My favorite art project is making scrapbooks for my kids.
50 Miriam Tisdel May 1, 2009 at 3:56 am: I really don’t remember any art projects as a child. But as an adult I love to draw and paint pictures of cartoons.