This is what you see when you walk into Art from Scrap. A lot of bins, did I say a lot, I mean A LOT! 

Christmas is coming... 

Wheel trimmings cut off of skateboard/rollerblade wheels 

The classroom making their art from scrap. 

Trevor cutting plastic wheel edging to decorate his creation. 

Some of the bins of scrap the kids could choose from. 

Trevor with his Art from Scrap creation, using an envelope, video tape ribbon, a cup lid, two sided tape and random stickers, bits and pieces. 

Oh the slide. How they love the ramp slide! Face full of sand? What could possibly be better? (a little seaweed mixed in for Trevor's liking) 

Trevor eating lunch next to Sebastian with his mohawk. 

Trevor's teachers, Amy and Alex  

Moira, Moira 

How fantastic is that class picture?? Chase Palm park playground, gotta love kindergarten! 

The class doing their best to walk single file back to the bus. 

The bus to go home. What a great trip! 

Sadie and I took a trip about a month ago to Carpenteria State Beach with her 4th grade classes. They had just completed reading and studying Island of the Blue Dolphins. The true life story took place right here, on our coastline on St. Nicholas Island in the 1850's. The kids were thrilled to be able to do some hands on experiments and studies of what it would have been like back then to be all alone and surviving on an island.

Clamshells and redwood to smooth logs for use in a canoe or shelter. 

Oh and who could forget the fire!  

She found she needed a little bit of help from her friends. 

Sadie trying to make herself a shovel using driftwood, seaweed and a flat rock. 

Sadie helping demonstrate how they would have built a canoe out of redwood and yukka string. 

The kids were shown how to build canoes, use yukka plants to make string, use natural pigments as paints and sealers and they got to try their hand at all of it! 

Here she is showing them all of the different tools and objects you can find regionally on St.Nicholas island where Island of the Blue Dolphins story took place in the 1850's. 

Classes sitting for presentation at Carpenteria State Beach by park presenters 

Sadie eating lunch at Carp State Beach with class field trip 

4th grade classes walking up to Carpenteria State Beach for presentation on Island of the Blue Dolphins 

Sadie working on making a 'tool