| Josai Volunteer Club |
| ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS CHRISTMAS PROJECT |
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| Using cardboard and recycled materials to create and decorate a Christmas tree, Josai Volunteer club students learn how to reuse packaging materials in a creative way while learning about Western culture and Christmas. |
| The finished tree will be displayed in the school hallway until Dec. 13th, when it will be moved to a display room in Ota City Hall. |
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| Starting with a brown piece of cardboard, the JVC members began their tree at the most basic level. |
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| Using packaging materials such as plastic, paper, cardboard boxes, paper towel rolls, popsicle sticks, foil, cups and a little creativity, the students decorated the Christmas tree. |
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| Two JVC students show their Christmas ornaments. They used the round cardboard cheese containers shown above to make 3-D oranaments for the tree by gluing recycled paper onto the boxes and coloring them to look like Christmas ornaments. |
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| In this picture, JVC students are gluing green paper to the cardboard tree. After the paper was glued onto both sides, the decorations were ready to be put on the tree. |
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| The finished product! The students displayed their Christmas tree at the school and in the City Hall. |
| By learning about the environment and seeing how differnet mateirals are used for packaging, the students learned how to recycle materials by re-using wrapping paper, creating artwork, and minimizing the amount of packaging they buy. |
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