What sort of thing does the school want for 'junk modelling'?

[bigchris]

Do they mean loo rolls and egg cartons?

That's what I'd call junk modelling - milk bottle tops too, cereal boxes, the little tins you get with mr kipling pies...

ah I see, thanks!

fab! maybe I should just take the bags of recycling

Ours takecereal boxes, kitchen roll tubes but not toilet roll tubes....on H&S grounds

Yep, empty your recycling. Egg cartons, cereal boxes, kitchen roll tubes, empty (clean) plastic bottles, bottle tops. Tin foil (though not strictly 'junk') is popular for 'robots'.

We're daily junk-bringers, to the teacher's amusement

All plastic pots, margarine/spread tubs, cardboard boxes or tubes (not loo), egg cartons, the lot.

Then half of it comes home again re-shaped into strange sellotaped objects that fall apart gently in the kitchen, only to be thrown away in the end....

our nursery wouldnt take egg boxes- also on H&S grounds... salmonella apparently.

The "egg box" salmonella thing is an urban myth Health & Safety Executive clean egg boxes are perfectly safe.

"
Myth: Egg boxes are banned in craft lessons as they might cause salmonella

The reality

This story started after a school briefly banned children from using cardboard egg boxes to make things, threatening years of Blue Peter tradition. They were concerned that children might catch salmonella.

Within a few days the school realised there was guidance from the County Council and an organisation for teachers called CLEAPSS, making clear that as long as egg boxes and toilet roll centres look clean, there is no reason why they should not be used."

We get the best junk from a friend who is a warden at sheltered housing flats - meals on wheels seem to come in a fantastic array of interesting trays & pots!

Anything unusual, any strange shape, texture, colour is great. Unfortunately, schools are not allowed to accept loo rolls, (but the suggestion that a child could die from a cardboard lavatory roll is the biggest piece of cr*p I've ever heard!) Anyway, rules is rules and we wouldn't want to upset elf n sayfti. If the school is really PC, "Junk" is entitled, "reclaimed materials" - ooh err!

Nursery collects for the pre-schoolers to junk model.

Monday we will be sending:

Cereal boxes
cardboard egg boxes
antihistamine tablet box
shoe box
large tube
tin foil tube
jelly box

etc etc

The toilet roll thing - they don't accept them at the nursery sil works at.

Her explanation - you touch a toilet roll whilst wiping your bum after pooing but before washing your hands.

Fair comment I think.

and before you all say that you don't smear poo all over the toilet roll as you wipe your bum, well thats exactly what ds1 did last week.
So any of the loo rolls at that preschool could have had the same treatment!

rofl at "as long as toilet roll centres look clean" - my dd's reception teacher is always v busy, I am sure she hasn't got time to inspect the innards of loo rolls for minute traces or poo (yuk) with a magnifying glass.

Basically in dd's school, you take anything in that would otherwise end up in the recycling/wheelie bin. If it looks manky then give it a swish in the washing up bowl first.

Then when your child comes out with some awful monstrous "model" made of 3 empty squash bottles, 2 giant cornflakes boxes and 19 not quite clean yogurt pots, all dripping with white glue, you say "oh how lovely darling" and if you are very lucky the dc says "hello mummy I made you a lovely jewellery box"

I'm afraid my lovely new jewellery box got a bit squashed and had to be thrown away.

onepieceofcremeegg I think the assumption is that parents are sensible enough not to bring dirty toilet roll tubes into school... so therefore safe to use the same with egg cartons.

wow thanks everyone
no one has stipulated no loo rolls at school so I'm sending oen in anyway

I send in anything that isn't recyclable plus things like egg boxes and cardboard tubes which are interesting shapes.

PLEASE make sure that it's all clean though. You wouldn't believe the number of unwashed tetrapak cartons and plastic trays we get at DSs school.