Animal magic from scrap
More than 80 children at a village school were shown that recycling could be fun when they made farm animals out of scrap material.
The children, aged three and four, at John Hunt Nursery and Primary school on London Road, Balderton, made birds and animals out of cardboard and paper supplied by the Unique Scrap Store of Manners Road, Newark.
The day was part of an environmental workshop organised by the Unique Scrap Store, a non-profit organisation that takes scrap materials such as cardboard from Newark companies to save it from going to a landfill site.
Miss Hollie Cook (23) a development worker at the store, said the idea of the project was to show that anything could be reused.
She said: “More importantly we wanted to show children that it can be fun as well.
“We are trying to promote a green message and also to give the children the opportunity to do it in an enjoyable way.”