Colourful arts and crafts with waste
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Lids on plastic bottles cannot be recycled and usually end up in landfill but one local artist is looking to collect them for her art classes.
Jill Pantiyasa owns Quirky Owl and regularly has classes for children during school holidays with a particular focus on getting crafty with different elements of waste.
“It's good for them to see that you can use things to create something aesthetically pleasing that would otherwise be rubbish.”
Mrs Pantiyasa put a call out on Facebook in search of plastic lids and said she had a great response because she titled it “War on Waste” like the ABC’s TV program.
“I quite like doing group activities with kids, so I thought it was something they could do.
“It's really hard to get lots of colours and with these things you need lots of colours,” she said.
Another craft she does with waste is paper mache with old newspapers and old plastic bottles.
“It's just trying to look at shapes and looking at the different things you can do with them,” Mrs Pantiyasa said.