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Thursday, June 16, 2011

Finished Bottle Cap Mural

The bottle cap mural is finished, and I just LOVE it. This one is hanging in the school hallway.
My students worked extremely hard on this mural, so they were very excited to see it hanging in the hallway. It looks awesome!
Here is a closeup of the mural. We certainly used a lot of caps for this project. This was such a fun way to recycle.
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17 comments:

  1. Christie - Fine LinesJune 16, 2011 at 2:44 PM

    WOW!!

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  2. Nancie KayJune 16, 2011 at 6:19 PM

    Congratulations on completing your beautiful mural - job VERY well done!

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  3. UnknownJune 16, 2011 at 6:22 PM

    Awesome! How many regular sized tupperware boxes of them did you have? We have one big rubbermaid box of them. . . not sure how much more to collect? IT IS AMAZING!

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  4. Holly B.June 16, 2011 at 6:55 PM

    Art Project Girl, I don't know exactly how many boxes I had. As they came in, I sorted them into boxes. I had one box for each color, but we didn't completely fill up each box, which makes it hard to answer your question. We did fill up an entire large box with just blue caps, and we used almost all of them. I don't know how large your rubbermaid box is, but you could probably make a smaller mural with that. I doubt you would have enough for one this size though.

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  5. Janie BJune 16, 2011 at 8:02 PM

    Just beautiful! What kind of glue did you use?

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  6. Anne FarrellJune 17, 2011 at 1:51 AM

    Well done, I love it!

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  7. Holly B.June 17, 2011 at 6:25 PM

    Janie, I used hot glue.

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  8. mssenemJune 29, 2011 at 10:00 AM

    Çok güzel... Ellerinize sağlık.

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  9. Scribble Doodle and DrawJuly 18, 2011 at 10:40 PM

    Very Inspiring!

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  10. AnonymousAugust 15, 2011 at 9:12 PM

    Beautiful! What a great way to have the kids excited about art and recycling!

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  11. kathielee46August 23, 2011 at 2:04 PM

    holly- how did the school hang them on the walls? i want to do this with my class, but the principal said he would not glue them to the wall. we have cement/plaster walls.

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  12. Holly B.August 23, 2011 at 4:38 PM

    Kathielee, I glued mine to the wall, but we also have really heavy cement walls. If you have plaster walls, maybe it would be best to do it on plywood instead of foamcore. Then you could screw it into the walls.

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  13. AnonymousAugust 27, 2011 at 5:53 AM

    That project looks like so much fun! Thanks for sharing :)

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  14. MissAugust 30, 2011 at 1:48 PM

    Holy smokes!!! How long did it take you to collect all the caps? Van Gogh would be proud!

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  15. FanypapAugust 30, 2011 at 3:27 PM

    Fantastic!!!Thanks for sharing!kisses from Greece.

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  16. AnonymousSeptember 20, 2011 at 7:24 AM

    How did you get the plastic whitish thing out of the middle of some of them. We are just starting to collect and most of them have a whitish seal on them and I was having a hard time getting them out.

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  17. Holly B.September 21, 2011 at 12:56 PM

    Sometimes I popped the whitish thing out. If that didn't work, then I used a little acrylic paint to paint them.

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