Task 4: Upcycling – The Painting Palette

We introduce the concept of upcycling to pupils and show them products from different materials: wooden pallet furniture, PET bottle boats and many other accessories.

Tools: solid cardboard (from the used box), caps from PET bottles of different colours, dispersion glue or a glue gun.

Procedure:

• The basic part consists of a cardboard cut into the shape of a painting palette. Here, we can leave the children free to create their own shape and avoid the typical shape of the painting palette. But we remind them that the painting palette has a hole and it is rounded in order to be held well. Their palette should provide that. They can also use a template. We watch pupils when creating a hole for holding the palette.

• After cutting the shape of the palette, they glue on the required number of caps. Thanks to the colours of the caps, the colours should not be repeated apart from one, which will serve also for other colours.

• After finishing, they can decorate the painting palette. In the photo there is a basic painting palette without decoration, it contains several colours and other two white coloured ones for mixing colours.