This is a short animation demonstrating the dumping of pollutants in our oceans.
Alas, it is startling to see how much plastic accumilates over time.
LET’S GIVE IT A THOUGHT!
We must be more vigilant and more kinder to our aquatic and oceanic sea life, otherwise we could play a big part in the destruction hence their extinction unless we act now.
MY INTENTION!
Later on in this post, I shall show you how to craft ‘A Milk Bottle Whale!’ following the story of A Whale’s Tale!
As well as recycling as much plastic as we can, highlighted in the previous post ‘What happens to our plastic waste? gives you some insight into what goes on with recycling plastic cycle, and what branded companies are doing about it.
Check it out click below.
SO WHAT CAN WE DO?
As well as recycling all our plastics in the appropriate way, we can invent and have kids make something interesting out of some of these plastic containers, in craft projects.
In the introduction to this post, I deliberately show this short video ‘Whale Tale’ which shows our oceans full of plastic deposits and how a whale got caught up in a net, starts to collect floating plastics, with the help of its friends.
Well, I want to reproduce some of this story and make ‘a milk bottle whale’ mirroring the whale in the story dragging the net full of plastics.
FEATURED BEFORE……….
I have shown another way you can use a plastic milk bottle in an earlier post where I show how you can make a ‘ Plastic milk bottle elephant’ that was fun and the result has the ‘Wow’ factor. Check that out too:-
Before we start here are some interesting facts about Blue Whales! ⇓
ARE YOU READY?
Here we go we are going to make the whale like the one in the ‘Whales tale’. It’s not too hard and very straight forward and with an adults help in the cutting and gluing with hot wax, it should be straight forward.
RESOURCES:-
2 large milk bottles.
Blue/white acrylic paints/silver glitter.
Paintbrush/scissors stanley knife.
Hot glue gun.
Black felt tip pens.
Any type of netting or similar to netting.
LET’S GET GOING!
The shape of the plastic milk bottle dictates the shape and size of the whale, all depends whatever you have in your recycle bag. Failing that, next time you purchase milk, go for the largest type, this would give the whale a better shape.
So there you have it, once you have made your whale you can go ahead and tell the story improvising with whatever you have for the plastic junk you can put in your netting. Of course the size of the bottles are life size, but it’s all about make belief.
SOME TIPS!
CURLING THE TAIL AND FINS.
- You can curl the plastic with the sharp side of the scissors, curling the tail and fins in the direction you want them to go. Work with it and you will get the plastic to curl.
SLIPPERY GLITTERY EFFECT!
- In addition you can add silver glitter all over the whale, if you like that shiny or glittery effect.
- Use glue stick here and there and this is enough to give that effect when you add the glitter on it.
A SOLID COLOUR.
- Acrylic paint is the best medium to use on plastic and not to dilute with water, as the plastic will repel the paint.
- Once the whale is painted, leave to dry then go over patches to give the plastic a more solid colour.
- Also use a good black felt tip to draw the eyes and go over again when dry.
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CRAFT LEFT OVER PLASTIC!
With the remaining plastic that I cut out the tail and fins, I managed to make into a bird feed! So ‘waste not want not’ as they say! in this instance, I don’t want to waste what I have left, so what else I can make with the left overs!
Various parts were cut out to accomadate an area for the bird to feed. In front a small bird can stand to feed or enter through the back hole.
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Here are some fun ocean themed puzzles, that are great for those little hands when first discovering how to piece together deconstructed pictures and make them appear again.
Magformers have a great Puzzly-Do collection known as Dubbl-Puzzl and one of them is ‘Ocean Friends!‘
Here are all the Ocean Friends!
Click on any image to enlarge and see puzzle pieces.
WHAT’S INCLUDED!
Six puzzles, designed with large pieces, so easy for little hands to grab and slot together.
In the set there are:-
Two fish.
A Crab.
Octopus.
Star-fish.
Whale.
These puzzles have an extra bonus, because once your kids have completed their picture they can flip them over!
There they will find an outline of the same picture, which can be coloured in how they like, using felt-tip pens included within the kit! ⇓
JUMP IN AND TAKE A LOOK!