Cap Creations: Turning Bottle Caps Into Learning Tools
Cap Creations: Turning Bottle Caps Into Learning Tools
Cap Creations: Turning Bottle Caps Into Learning Tools
December 24, 2020
Summary
A growing education program at West Chester University of Pennsylvania saw treasure in this trash, turning bottle caps into hands-on and play-based learning for children.
Cap Creations started as a local project to get affordable, sustainable learning tools into the hands of children.
A cap kit consists of bottle caps with letters, numbers or words written with markers.
Anyone can make a cap kit by collecting bottle caps from everyday use: a milk jug, water bottle and ice tea bottle, among others.
She explained Cap Creations keeps adding new "Tentacles"-from the increased education students are getting to the therapeutic benefits special education high school students gain from packing cap kits to the sustainability aspect of keeping caps out of the landfills.
This growth gave the program the ability to visit communities most in need of simple, affordable learning tools like the learning caps.
While single-use bottles still pose a significant threat to the planet's health, Cap Creations represents one instance of the phrase, "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade." Cap kits as learning tools decrease plastic pollution while providing affordable fun sustainable learning tools for children of all backgrounds.
Reference
Cap Creations: Turning Bottle Caps Into Learning Tools. (2020, December 24). Retrieved January 06, 2021, from https://www.borgenmagazine.com/cap-creations-turning-bottle-caps-into-learning-tools/