Romper – Ashley Jones
“I remember when my third grade teacher assigned our class to fill a paper grocery bag with a variety of recyclables to bring to school for an Earth Day art project. We all ended up bringing different materials and had fun swapping with one another to make whatever our imaginations revealed. (I made a rocket ship out of a 2-liter soda bottle, in case you were wondering.) The lesson that it was possible to take something I would have normally thrown away and turn it into something beautiful, fun, or useful really stuck with me.” (more)