Pet (plastic) Bottle Caddy!

With the world being so polluted we should start recycling. Where better to start encouraging then in school!
Here is a simple art/ anything caddy, using Pet bottles. It is  a good project for both boys and girls as it uses the basic skills necessary for both sexes...like simple carpentry and  sewing.
I have used soft wood... for the frame of the caddy as you don't have to use power tools to nail. Therefore it's basically safe for primary children.

Learning Objective : By constructing this caddy....students will learn to reuse. As children will be using needles , scissors , fret saw...
they would  learn the simple skills of basic sewing, basic wood working skills.

Step 1: Materials For the containers

• Pet bottles
• knife
• knitting needle ( to poke holes...could use a drill...but want to be safe with kids and use only hand tools...after all    everyone cant afford power tools! )
• medium needle
• 14" zip
• thread

Comments

[susanrm]

Neat project! Did you mean PET bottle caddy (as in the plastic)? Because I thought from the title that it was like a hiking bottle for dogs.

[shazni]

:-D really hiking bottles for dogs? (i didn't know they had such bottles!)
yes...it's plastic...you can use any plastic bottles...only both have to be identical.
When you are done you could just remove the containers and zip it up!
I've made many for cutlery and pencil colors and so on. If you cut it very short you could use it as a coin purse.
Add big google eyes to a bottle with red zip and you have a little monster! ( a green sprite bottle would go well for the monster idea :-) )