SuitabookCool crafts with plastic
Jane Yates
- Reading
- You could begin by considering the environmental information, then try one project at a time. Pause to identify the plastic needed, consider the intended use, and invite the reader to adapt the design creatively.
- Themes
- Reusing plastic: Readers use plastic containers, bottles and other items to create gifts, decorations and jewellery. Reuse is presented as a constructive way to reduce the amount of plastic thrown away, while crafts make the materials useful and attractive.
- Plastic pollution and animals: The book introduces places where plastic has formed large ocean accumulations, endangering nearby animals. The book presents this mainly as information or explanation.
- Creativity within instructions: Simple instructions guide each project while allowing each crafter’s creativity to appear in the result. The book combines structured guidance with room for readers to make choices and alter designs.
- Worth knowing
- Notice how the book frames reuse as a response to plastic pollution. You could discuss whether making attractive objects changes how we think about throwing materials away, and what limits reuse might have.