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Does anyone have any recycle/craft ideas for plastic soda bottles, 20 oz and
1 liter? My kids have quite a collection now.

Love,


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Jill
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The O'Donnells

At 09:27 PM 9/27/99 -0400, you wrote:
>From: Jastypes@...
>
>Does anyone have any recycle/craft ideas for plastic soda bottles, 20 oz and
>1 liter? My kids have quite a collection now.
>
>Love,

Jill,

We made bird feeders from 2 liter bottles - don't see why the smaller ones
wouldn't work. We bought cheap plastic bowls and screwed them into the
base with about 5 screws. Then in the cap we screwed in a circular loop.
Attached a coat hanger wire and they worked wonderfully! The hardest part
is filling them - I now use a cut off milk carton that fits over the bottle
neck. We loose a little seed but not much.


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Laraine
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Olivia

At 09:27 PM 09/27/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>From: Jastypes@...
>
>Does anyone have any recycle/craft ideas for plastic soda bottles, 20 oz and
>1 liter? My kids have quite a collection now.


My son made a model of the Space Shuttle using one as the center body of
the vehicle. He got the design out of a book. Also, our homeschool group
recently had a "Boat Science" day and we used quite a few plastic bottles
as parts of various boats, since plastic (with caps on) floats so well.

Here are a couple of ideas from the TV show ZOOM:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/zoom/some/sci/sodabottleboat.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/zoom/some/sci/compost.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/zoom/some/sci/biodome.html

We have a big box of recycled materials that we keep for these kinds of
projects, although it is stuffed beyond its limits! I guess we need to make
some more creations.

Olivia

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In a message dated 9/27/1999 22:33:33. Eastern Daylight Time,
praxis@... writes:

<< Does anyone have any recycle/craft ideas for plastic soda bottles, 20 oz
and
>1 liter? My kids have quite a collection now.
> >>

There are a lot of "bottle biology" activities at

http://fastplants.cals.wisc.edu/wfpid/id%27s.html

They are basically terrariums created out of l or 2 liter bottles. Some of
them are quite complex, with a number of different bottles nested on top of
each others, with different micro environments to interact with each other.
Look for the listings with some mention of bottle biology. I haven't done any
of these yet, but they look really nifty.

Karen, (with Helen, 6, Agent of Chaos, and Gordon, 3, Agent of Destruction)