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World Environment Day

Today marks World Environment Day to encourage worldwide awareness and action to protect our environment. Unfortunately, due to human activities, our planet suffers from pollution, climate change, deforestation, and human overpopulation. We need this day and World Environment Month to educate people about the consequences and teach them about the opportunities to change our habits affecting our home.

There are many events to register for to volunteer for a clean-up crew, help out a recycling station, or pick up garbage in your local area. You can share insightful information from the global website with family and friends, encouraging them to change their habits to help reduce the effects of climate change in everyone’s lives. We can also grow trees, green our cities, rewild our gardens, change our diets and clean up rivers and coasts. But as artists, you have the responsibility to get active and bold as well, not anxious and timid.

How? Well, we’re all used to create with general mediums such as crayons, paper, paint, watercolour, pens, tiles, or wood, but we should rethink our strategies. Isn’t that what artistry is all about – creating something incredible from nothing?!

Let’s Change Our Artistry Course

We encourage you to think about upcycling and recycling. Many artists already follow this path by using bottle caps, corks, plastic bottles, magazines and newspapers, empty toilet rolls and paper towel rolls, jars, cans, lids, egg cartons and even plastic bags… Let’s do the same!

To let the creative juices flow, we’re showing you simple ideas, but you can think about how to take these ideas even further, making them unique to interest people in purchasing, sharing and talking about it.

Storage

Plastic bottles can be used as storage containers for colour coordinated pencils in classrooms. Instead of just throwing them away, they could be cut to your preference to either be placed neatly on a table or hanged from a rail. They can be prettied up according to your classroom’s theme too. Ideas for plastic bottles are endless… and don’t you think this will inspire children to think about repurposing as well?

DIY Drip Irrigation

Plastic bottles can also be used to create your own water drip irrigation system. Not only will you keep the environment clean, but with water restraints in some areas, you can spare a little or recycle water. Click here to learn about water drip irrigation and how to build such a system.

Light Bulb Ideas

Now, isn’t this a bright idea? Recycle and reuse old light bulbs as vases – standing or hanging! These can also be transformed into other decorations illustrating animals such as penguins or minions. Cute little hot air balloons for a baby shower or spiders for Halloween will just be as useful!

Kids Craft

Looking for magical kids crafts? Recycle a couple of toilet rolls and make this fantastic DIY unicorn marionette – the kids will love it! You will obviously need 2 empty toilet rolls, beads, string, glue, scissors, pom-poms and plastic eyes. Yip, that’s it, and we guarantee that your children will want to play with it for hours and create different animals too – recycling more empty toilet rolls!

There is a lot of great content online, and it only gets better and more diverse. So, you can do a little bit of digging to find out more. Also, you don’t have to be a naturally creative person to put together something powerful that comes from the heart! So whether beginner or pro, you go!

Happy World Environment Day, PNA fans!

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