Claire's 1st science fair

At Chestnut Hill Elementary the idea of recycling is very important--I am pretty sure that it is everywhere but this elementary school shares a property line with a middle school that is one of the few 'green' middle schools in the country. A few of the things that go on at the middle school are...rain water is used to flush toilets and a windmill is used to power something...I can't remember, skylights and solar panels are used to power the lights...you get the idea.

So this year for Claire's science fair project the 1st graders had to make a something that represented the ocean using nothing new but instead they had adhere to the idea of "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle". It was fun because we forgot until the last minute and it became a small family affair. Ike came up with the idea and possible means of construction, others hunted for the items needed, Claire went outside and dug up rocks with one of her brothers, and I raided all the craft supplies that I have saved (because of course nothing could be new), and we found a box that had been headed for the trash--then construction began. This picture is the result...A clown fish living in a sea anemone