Friends and family of GATE have saved bottle caps for an art mural project for a year! You may have wondered what the bottle caps were for or what the final product would look like. We finished this week and it is beautiful! There were many steps to this art project and the students were diligent to complete each step. First of all they saved and saved and brought caps to school. Then we had to sort and sort and sort to have them separated by color.
All GATE students drew out an idea for our mural. Most of the ideas were of flowers, butterflies, and nature or an ocean scene. We decided to combine many of the flowers in the kids' art to create our final mural. It took lots of patience and hot glue to place the bottle caps in exactly the right spot....and I am proudly ready to present our bottle cap art mural for 2015!
This piece of art measures 45 inches tall and 93 inches wide! It is hung outside Mrs. Sheets' office for all to see and enjoy. Each GATE student had a part in sorting and gluing bottle caps to create our mural. We have many bottle caps left, so in 2015-2016 school year, we will create the ocean mural that the students designed. I can't wait!
Please enjoy this short slideshow of "the making of our mural."
What backer did you use? How did you adhere the bottle caps? I am trying to help a preschool teacher that wants to create a bottle cap mural with little kids. Your help would be greatly appreciated.
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