Article Link: http://exchangepress.com/article/recycled-materials/5016138/
“I believe we have to develop a culture of thrift that views even the poorest of materials with the greatest respect. You can take almost anything (paper, cardboard, plastic, packaging) and ifyou invest it with labor, and care, and imagination, you can give it a new life and encourage others to look at that material in a new way.”
Bejamin Bailie Trautman (mechanical sculptor, 2004)
Observing in an infant/ toddler center
A group of eight toddlers are intently active in a large, well-lighted room, some sitting up and exploring things at hand, some moving around with tentative steadiness. The teacher sits in the center of the room. She follows with attention the action of the children who come often to her secure base. She offers her hands, supportive words, and encouraging smiles to one or the other of the toddlers.
Now two of them are intent on picking up shells from an incline on the floor next to a low window, to place them in a cardboard box. They bend down, balancing precariously their heavily padded bottoms. Every so often one of them picks up the box and empties it out on the incline; they laugh as the shells scatter. They start ...