Recycle Robot
What job could a robot do? What recycled items could you use? Invent a high-tech robot with classmates!
1. Find out how items in your community are recycled. What items can be recycled? How is waste handled? Where do the recycled products go? How are recycled materials processed into new goods? List some of the most common items made with recycled products.
2. Discover how robots and computers have changed the way people explore the ocean and space. For example, a robot named Jason helped locate the wreck of the Titanic on September 1, 1985. Interview friends and neighbors to find examples of robots in homes, transportation, and local industries. How do robots affect your everyday life?
3. With a small group of your classmates, recycle items such as plastic containers, boxes, and other beautiful junk. Use Crayola® Model Magic to press these objects together to create a robot that has a specific use which you imagine. Think of creative uses! Let the robot air-dry for at least 24 hours.
4. Use Crayola School Glue to attach other recycled materials to make a space ship, home, vehicle, or another accessory for your robot. Air-dry.
5. Cover your art area with newspaper. Paint your robot and any accessories with Crayola Washable Paint and Paint Brushes. Air-dry all pieces.
6. Glue on decorative craft items such as fake fur, yarn, or feathers. Air-dry your art.
7. Name your robot. Present it to the class, explain how it was made, tell why it is environmentally friendly, and describe the work it performs.
Adult supervision is required for any arts & crafts project. Observe children closely and intervene as necessary to prevent potential safety problems and ensure appropriate use of arts and crafts materials. Some craft items, particularly beads and buttons, are potential choking hazards for young children. Avoid use of such small parts with children younger than 3 years. Craft items such as scissors, push pins and chenille sticks may have sharp points or edges. Avoid use of materials with sharp points by children younger than 4 years. Read all manufacturers' safety warnings before using arts and craft supplies.
Crayola Modeling Materials including Crayola Model Magic®, and Model Magic Fusion™, Crayola Air-Dry Clay, and Crayola Dough—
- Keep away from open flames. Do not use to make candleholders, hot plates, trivets, or other similar objects that will be used or placed near fire and other heat sources.
- Do not put in an oven, microwave, or kiln.
- Do not make into vessels/containers that will hold unpackaged food.
- The use of modeling material to make items that look like food is discouraged for children younger than age 5 to avoid their confusion with real food.
- Unless sealed with a water-resistant glaze, do not make projects exposed to or immersed in water, such as boats or outdoor bird feeders. They would disintegrate when exposed to moisture.
- Crayola Dough—contains gluten (wheat flour) as an ingredient.
- Crayola Air-Dry Clay, Crayola Model Magic and Model Magic Fusion are gluten-free. However, they are produced on the same machinery as Crayola Dough which does contain gluten. Although the machines are cleaned prior to the start of each production run, there is a slight possibility that trace amounts of gluten from Crayola Dough may be present in the other modeling compound products. For information regarding specific ingredients or allergic concerns, please call our Consumer Affairs department at 1-800-272-9652 weekdays between 9 AM and 4 PM Eastern Standard Time.
Crayola Washable Paints—Not for use as body/face paint.
Recycled Containers—Must be clean and safe. Do not use containers that contained bleach or other harmful chemicals (for example, household cleaners, dishwasher or laundry detergents). Do not use recycled metal cans that have sharp edges (for example, lids removed by household can openers).
- Use recycled objects as the base for a Model Magic sculpture. Cover the form with the modeling material. Embellish the base with new forms, textures, and features. Paint and title your work.
- Engage in a community clean-up or recycling project. Collaborate with other groups to increase continuing participation in recycling programs.
- Young children or those with learning challenges observe robots at work, either in the community or through electronic media. How are robots controlled? What design considerations are evident? How would you invent a robot to do the same function?
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