Education

Education offerings at SCRAP: Lessons worth reusing

Field Trips

For a uniquely hands-on experience, SCRAP offers field trips for preschoolers through college students. Students master vocabulary and concepts related to reducing, reusing, and recycling. Field trips are customized to fit your student group; including number of students, familiarity with reuse, age, ability, special needs, and any specific curriculum.

Field trips for kindergarten through college students cost $5 per student for two hours, with a minimum of six students. Field trips include:

• A tour of SCRAP
• Creative reuse activities
• An on-site project
• A SCRAP pack for each participant
• A classroom pack for the teacher

Ready to plan your field trip? Fill out the Field Trip planning form.

Preschool field trips cost $3 per student for one hour, with a minimum of six students. Preschool field trips include:

• Creative reuse activities
• An on-site project
• A classroom pack for the teacher

Ready to plan your preschool field trip? Fill out the Preschool Field Trip planning form.

SCRAP at School

SCRAP can come to your school for a one-hour presentation about creative reuse. SCRAP at School presentations cost $50 for up to 30 students, plus materials. Presentations include:

• Hands-on activities
• Information about creative reuse
• Everyone gets to make a simple project out of reused materials to take home

Ready to plan your SCRAP at School presentation? Fill out the SCRAP at School planning form.

Scouting Outings

Scouting Outings cost $5 per scout for two hours, with a minimum of six scouts. Scouting Outings include:

• A tour of our store, gallery, and workshop space
• Completion of three activities toward earning your Ecology, Art, or Building-themed badge or patch
• A take-home kit with reused materials that will help your troop or pack complete a fourth activity at your next meeting
• Learning about SCRAP and creative reuse as a future resource for your scout group

Ready to plan your Scouting Outing? Fill out the Scouting Outing planning form.

Other education services

If you are interested in scheduling a presentation or activity that is not listed above, or want SCRAP to come table at your event, the fee is $50 per hour, with a minimum of a one-hour time commitment. Please contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) for scheduling.

Tours for adults

We encourage adult groups to come see what SCRAP is all about! Groups will be provided information about what we do and why, plus they will get to see lots of examples of what can be done with reused materials. Tours are scheduled during our open hours. Please contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) to schedule a tour.

Groups may rent one of our workshops to do an activity following the free tour. Each workshop has space for 10-14 people and costs $35 for school/nonprofit groups and $50 for private groups for two hours. Get more info about renting the workshop.

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Creative Reuse in the Classroom

Teaching Art on the Cheap

We offer a repository of art lesson plans for the K-5 classroom—the projects have a traditional appearance but almost 100% of the ideas use reused or recycled materials, which were all sourced from SCRAP’s crafty inventory. These lessons and projects were tried and tested by the wonderful students at Whitman Elementary during the 2009-2010 school year and focus on exploring the seven elements of art. Visit the blog.

The Ivy School

The Ivy School is SCRAP’s school partner for the 2011-12 school year Keep up with their creative reuse adventures on our blog.

Escuela Viva Art

SCRAP’s 2010-11 school partner was The Living School, a small school based on the Reggio Emilia philosophy. Review the adventures of their art teacher, Kjirsten Winters, and her 15 students working on process-oriented creative reuse projects.