Child's school is looking for 'junk materials'

[MeinKraft]

That's all the detail I have? No idea what the project is. What would you send? I've got quite a lot of crafty odds and ends I can send in or do you think they just want old bean cans and bottle tops?

This is where having one of you working in an office, which they never visit, is really useful. Dh admired so many junk models and 'took them to enjoy at the office'.

As other posters have said, prepare to embrace it all back into your home, glued/taped together into some massive god awful painted, dripping, structure, that you can barely fit into the car, and you now have to display/love/embrace for the next month (at least), until one day you finally snap and bin it. Get ready, and come up with your best excuses, as the child will no doubt instantly notice it's removal, and act completely heartbroken that their "artwork" has disappeared. The best part is when your child enthusiastically brings said "thing" out to you at the school gates proudly beaming, and you start trying to guess what it is... child gets increasingly agitated and pouty, as you guess basically every single "thing" it could possibly be, before grumpily announcing that it's a "hippopotamus", and ahhhh yes... of course you see it now (not)... you just forget hippopotamuses always have 8 cardboard tube legs of varying lengths, and their heads have always resembled a cocopops box with a 6 pinter milk carton glued on top and painted yellow. What a fine hippopotamus this is.

I've always loved arts&crafts and encouraged my children to be creative. Yes, even dropped of boxes of material for their class to use! Whenever they came home proudly showing of their artwork it got a nice place in the kitchen or livingroom, and then after a while, when it needed to be replaced by new artwork, I took a picture that I added to their album! My children are adults now and showing of their picturebooks to their own children 😊

Tissue boxes, vitamin containers, milk lids, take out containers, basically anything clean that you'd put in your recycling bin.

My year four had to do this today! Wonder if it’s the same school. I sent yoghurt pots and an empty box - child made a guitar and a maraca with some rice someone else sent in.