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Don’t throw out anything! Aluminum cans this time…

by Cyndi on April 4th, 2007

If you’ve collected a load of soda cans from your last party, take a look at this site before you decide to return them for the measly deposit! Recycle them instead.

Aluminous Publishing presents electronic books and galleries full of creative ideas!

Tags: aluminum-cans, Assemblage, metal-art, recycling

Bobbi Chukran
Apr 5, 2007 at 9:55 am

Hey Cyndi,

I was thinking about you yesterday when we were dealing with all the cat food cans we have here. With the new can opener, the lids come off in one nice, round, non-sharp piece of metal. There has to be something you could make from those! LOL

bobbi c.
Layers Upon Layers: Mixed Media Art » Extraordinary student work with aluminum cans!
Apr 20, 2007 at 8:06 am

[…] have been working on sculpture projects, using aluminun cans, and when they saw the post here about aluminum can art, some of them wanted to share the work that they’ve been doing. And I’m so glad that […]
Nicole
Feb 29, 2008 at 11:01 pm

I’m recycling aluminum cans for my exhibition since our topic is about recycling. But the problem is, I don’t know what to make out of them. But please don’t say anything too easy like pencil case or flower pot.
Cyndi
Mar 1, 2008 at 10:34 am

Hi Nicole! I left you some suggestions on the other post:
http://www.layersuponlayers.com/extraordinary-student-work-with-aluminum-cans/

Good luck with your work!