SCAPE Education Programme

SCAPE Kids Rebuild a Recyclable City

Can you rebuild your future city our of recyclable materials?

South Island artist Joanna Langford uses recyclable materials to build her fantastical cities. The work that Joanna envisioned for 6th SCAPE, The High Country, is a whimsical, futuristic city floating in the sky. The "clouds" are made from recycled sileage plastic wrap, and  buildings from plastic bottles lit with LED lights. 

Children can use their imaginations with found and recycled objects to create a city-scape they way that THEY would like it as part of 6th SCAPE. 

You can book your children in for one of our Rebuild a Recyclable City Kids' workshops, pick up one of the limited number of  free Recyclable City Packs from Christchurch City Libraries during the October school holidays, or children can simply use found or recycled objects from around the home to build an imaginitive model city-scape. 

Children may wish to email us photos of their creations with a brief description to christine@scapebiennial.org.nz, and we'll upload them to our facebook page www.facebook.com/SCAPEpublicart.  Once they're all uploaded, online voting begins. The picture with the most number of 'likes" wins. The winner will receive a $50 voucher from The Drawing Room (Terms and Conditions below). SCAPE will also collate all entries together and send a copy of them to Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker. 

We hope that you have fun building your recycable cities!

1. Rebuild a Recyclable City - Kids' Workshop

10.30am-12noon and 1.30pm-3.00pm, Sat 5 Nov and Sat 19 Nov 2011

Creative Junk, 25 Disraeli Street, Addington, Christchurch.

Drawing inspiration from SCAPE Artist Joanna Langford’s The High Country, kids will have an opportunity to rebuild a favourite part of their city out of recyclable materials. We provide the materials, kids bring their imagination!

Price: $5 

Bookings essential, limited to 12 per workshop. Suitable for  6–12 year olds.

Phone: Creative Junk 03 379 4040, Email: Christine@creativejunk.org.nz

In partnership with Creative Junk and with support from the Sustainable Initiatives Fund Trust (SIFT).

2. SCAPE  Kids Rebuild a Recyclable City - Packs from CCC libraries

For the October school holidays 2011, SCAPE have put together a limited number of special packs for children to help them to rebuild a city-scape from their own imaginations out of recycled materials.  Packs are free and contain flat-packed recycled materials and an instruction sheet.

3. SCAPE Kids Rebuild a Recyclable City - Do It Yourself!

Children can build a Rebuild a Recyclable City from found and recycled materials at home.  We've put some ideas below about how you might go about it!

To build your city you will need:

Scissors, glue stick or PVA glue, tape, a newspaper covered work surface.   

Recycled and found materials which might include cardboard, newspaper, old magazines, fabric, plastic bags, plastic containers...

You may also want to use:

Paint, felt pens, crayons or coloured pencils

To make your future city:

1. Brainstorm the favourite parts of your city (don't forget the natural features e.g. parks, rivers, beach)

2. Look at the recycled materials you have available - what parts of your city could they be made into? Think about how you can attach these to a base. You may like to use stiff cardboard to make a solid base for your city-scape. 

3. What is your vision for the future of your city - will the city have a theme - futuristic? historic? fantastical? garden city?

4. If you wish, you can take a look at the video we've made to see what some other children created. 

5. In our video we used PVA glue to attach blue plastic paper for the sky and plastic bags for clouds were pushed through holes in the sky. Are you going to create a sky?

6. Think about what you could use to make a river, paving, roads, paths, trees, parks, street furniture etc

7. Create and decorate your buildings or fragments of city and fix them to the base. 

8. If you would like to share what you have made, email a picture of your artwork to christine@scapebiennial.org.nz with a short sentence telling us about your creation and we'll load it to our facebook page www.facebook.com/SCAPEpublicart.   Then ask your friends and family if they'd like to go and look at your art between the 21st and 25th November and "like" the creation that they think is best.  You could win a $50 Voucher from The Drawing Room if you get the most votes!

Kids Rebuild a Recyclable City Facebook Competition Conditions

Children can enter as many times as they wish, however each entry must represent a completely new creation. We encourage group collaboration, however entries will only be valid if created by a maximum of two children.  Children must be aged 13 and under. Entries must be received prior to midday 20 November 2011. Voting will commence 21 November at 9am and close on 25 November at 5pm. There is one prize which will be given to the child who receives the most "likes" in the online voting. The prize is a $50 voucher to The Drawing Room.  If there is a draw in the voting result, the winners will each receive a voucher which represents an equal percentage of the total $50 prize.