Starting a New Bottle Cap Mural

Starting a New Bottle Cap Mural:

Vincent Van Gogh's 

"Starry Night"

One of my goals this school year was to facilitate the creation of a 

bottle cap mural with some of my students at work.

I chose my 5th grade class to work on this project as it is my

smallest class with only 10 students

(10 very high-energy students)! 

After the students watched several videos and documentaries 

about various environmental issues

 (including Midway Island - see previous post), 

they were pumped to start creating a 

bottle cap mural for the school.

We decided to create Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night,"

one of my all-time favorite paintings. 

The first step was sorting by color. 

They loved doing this - they were like little kids in a candy shop 

or like kids sorting their candy after trick-or-treating.

So much enthusiasm!

The next step was to clean all of the caps with lots of soap and water.

Unfortunately, I didn't get any photos of this step. 

Just imagine lots of water - everywhere! 

Note to all art teachers:

 Be very very thankful if you have 

a sink in your room!