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Monday, March 18, 2024
March 18, 2024

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Fourth-graders collect bottle caps for art

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Fircrest — Last year, Lara Alford’s fourth-grade class at Fircrest Elementary School started collecting bottle caps for an Earth Day project, since in Clark County plastic bottle caps can’t be recycled in the regular containers because they are a different grade of plastic, Alford wrote in an email. In two weeks, Alford’s class collected hundreds of laundry detergent, sports drinks, medicine bottles and peanut butter jar caps. Her class used the bottles to create a mural for her classroom. This year, she asked her students to bring in caps starting in the fall, with a goal of collecting 2,016 bottle caps. Alford and her students surpassed her goal in early June, and painted the bottle caps to create a 28-square-foot mural of a hot air balloon floating through the sky near a mountain. “Working on this mural gave us a wonderful goal to keep our sights set on and often a reason to come to school,” Alford wrote.

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