SCRAP Denton

Usually Sam does homework at the kitchen table while I fix dinner, but on this particular day we took a field trip to one of the coolest, and probably one of the most unusual stores in Denton to do homework - SCRAP!

Picture your junk drawer in the kitchen - the one where you throw old keys and the button that falls off your jacket - then imagine the contents of your drawer filling every nook and cranny of a fairly large building.  That's SCRAP.

Because it has a little bit of everything and the items there are meant to be used in the creative construction of something else completely different, it was the perfect place to get materials for Sam's first EXPO project - his "Trashion Fashion" costume.

A Trashion Fashion show is exactly what its name implies - models strutting the runway wearing outfits made from trash.  Sam's assignment went a little further in that it needed to represent something he learned in EXPO class this year.  At Open House last spring, he showed us the logic puzzles he solves in class, so we decided he would make the perfect "Puzzle King" for the fashion show.  So one day after school we put on our creativity caps and headed to SCRAP!

Every puzzle king needs a scepter - we made one out of this old curtain rod, an empty roll of packing tape and a giant puzzle piece!

Sam found some bulletin board border that was perfectly wavy for a king's crown!

We ended up getting most of his supplies at SCRAP; all the parts of his scepter, fabric for his royal robe, and some glass beads for the jewels in his bulletin border-crown.   It was a perfect lesson in reduce-reuse-recycle and a fun field trip to our favorite downtown!

Our Downtown Denton version of American Gothic.  Haha!