Last Updated on May 25, 2016 by Babita
If you remember, back in August I had written about the kids series “Annedroids” from Amazon Studios. For those of you who are still unfamiliar; here is a brief description. It is a science based adventure series that follows 11-year-old scientist Anne. She is a kid genius who has built her own androids and PAL – who is her Personal Android Lightbot. She along with her friends/assistants Nick and Shania tackle some serious experiments while making scientific discoveries. Created by JJ Johnson, Annedroids was developed to inspire creative thinking and lifelong learning in children. The objective of this series is also to inspire kids through science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) to do amazing things.
As a mom of two girls I am always happy when my girls can have examples of strong female characters on TV. In the series Anne and her friends invent unique gadgets with stuff found in her junkyard. In one of the episodes they want to start a garage band. With this episode as our inspiration and since we are celebrating National Recycling Week, ‘S’ and I decided to come up with our own recycling project.
After looking around in our garage and our recycling bin we decided to make a drum set. In my mind I wanted to use a big box to make two of them. Unfortunately, I was only able to find a small box. However, we decided to make it work. Below you can see the products we used for our project 1) a medium sized hallow box and 2) an empty paint can – we used only the lid of the empty paint can.
I started off by asking ‘S’ to trace a circle on top of the box using the lid for size.
Once she was done with the tracing I cut out a hole in the box with a box cutter.
‘S’ then placed the lid over the hole and pressed it gently. The lid fit perfectly over the cut out and that made ‘S’ smile.
For me it was enough but ‘S’ wanted more so she decided to paint her new recycled drum. She choose the colors from my painting supplies and colored both the box and the lid. She also placed some stickers over it to make it pretty (her words).
This is what our Recycled Drum looked like after it was all finished.
Since we did not have a drum stick, I gave her a rolling pin to hit on the drum. She had a blast playing on it. I have to say our project for the National Recycling Week was a huge success.
If you want to learn more about “Annedroids (Click Here). It is available on Amazon Prime Instant Video and is free for Amazon Prime members.
Disclosure: I was selected for this opportunity as a member of Clever Girls and the content and opinions expressed here are all my own.
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I can’t believe how that happened, lol! I totally need to be crafty myself, lol – that was amazing.
What an awesome craft idea Babs. I never would have thought to do that. I may have my little Madison doing it it with me.
I love that Amazon is teaching kids how to contribute towards making this earth a better place. It’s an important lesson for the younger generation to learn.
What a clever idea to use recycled materials for that drum set. It turned out awesome!
We love that show btw. Amazon has great programs!
what a cute recycling project. I did a creamer bottle snowman with my child today. We love to do that.
Reduce, reuse, recycle! I love making things out of old objects, so fun!
What a great craft. I didn’t realize that it was national recycling week.
Wow, that drum is the cutest thing! What a fun and practical way to celebrate National Recycling Week.
I try to reduce, reuse, and recycle as much as I possibly can. I love that you made this craft out of things you already had around!
What a fun idea. I did not know that it was National Recycling Week!
We did one of these campaigns and we loved the show. It’s so cute and smart.
I have to say this is the most creative drum I have ever seen.
Love how you decorated it too!
This is a very cute idea. I might have to do this for my son. I think he’d like making his own drum.
What a great use for unneeded items! I’m sure she’s keeping your house very musical now. 🙂
Liz, I don’t know if our house is more musical but it is definitely more noisy. I don’t mind as long as she is enjoying herself 🙂
Everything looks like so much fun! Thank you so much for the great post and beautiful photos 😀
That is pretty neat! And I didn’t know it was National Recycling Week! Cool!
How did I miss that it’s National Recycling Week? This is such a cool drum and great re-use of items. Great job!
What a great job she did! It looks lovely! We love recycling and my kids usually remind me when I need to recycle! I wasn’t aware there was a week for it!
She did an awesome job on the drum. I had no idea it was National Recycling Week. I think we are going to have to do something to celebrate at our house, too!