Broken hair ties with butterflies, egg cartons, computer boxes and more went into a project two local home-schooled girls worked on for Earth Day. For Cassidy and Harley Felerski, the lesson they learn in their home schooling classes on Earth Day took a crafty turn when they started looking around their home for recycled items and turned it into a project that was on display at Seymour Library. Their Homespun Art Exhibit, their mom Caroline said, was to show how everyday items can be reused and recycled into art pieces and craft projects. "Everything in the project is made with recycled every day items," she said. "It took us a long time to come up with the project - we did it on Sunday," seven-year-old Cassidy said. Her mom, Caroline, laughed in the background and said the project took them longer than that - several weeks in fact. "Once we started talking about Earth Day, we started looking around the house for items that could go into a craft project, it just grew," Caroline said. "My design had hearts and rainbows on it," five-year-old Harley said of a portion of the project she helped with. "I really liked painting." The project turned from a small scale one into a full scale castle. "We also had Mardi Gras masks that we made out of waffle boxes and decorated with the butterflies from hair ties and glitter glue," Caroline said. Plastic flowers, decorated with pebbles from a fish tank, were displayed in homemade pots. Felerski said the project may make a trip to Art Walk in The Neighborhood of the Arts in Rochester in the summer. "We are trying to see if we might be able to get projects that other home-schooled kids have worked on and get a display together for Art Walk," Caroline said. When asked what would happen to the project once it came home, Felerski said she isn't quite sure but would like to see an Earth Day project between several home-schooled children and their families become a larger collaborative project in the future. April 29, 2007 |
