Kids Turn Trash Into Art at Plainfield Goddard School

They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure and nowhere is that more apparent than the Plainfield Goddard School where students are participating in a recycling project as part of the school’s Root for the Earth campaign.

In fact, each of the Goddard Schools located across the country have been participating in it.

At the 24829 W 135th St. location, Toddler Teacher Veronica Moreno said she and the other faculty, students and parents pooled together all the recyclables they managed to collect over the past two weeks and made art out of them.

“We made a carnival out of it,” Moreno said.

Photos of the recycling creations are posted on the Goddard School’s Facebook page. The Plainfield location is currently in second place.

Moreno said the project allows the kids to not only use arts and crafts, but learn about the environment and what they can reuse.

“You could take a water bottle and turn it into something completely different and still use it more than once,” Moreno said.

The winning school will receive a student and teacher resource kit worth $600. To vote in the contest, and anyone can, visit the Goddard School’s Facebook page and like the photo you want to vote for. Voting ends Friday, April 24 at 4 p.m.

Photo: Created to look like a scene from a circus, the students at the Plainfield Goddard School took recyclable material and transformed it into art.