This is the fun part – any project that promotes the recycling, reduction or reuse of beverage containers, promotes keeping our stormwater clean or promotes water conservation can be entered! Here are some ideas to get you started:

• Show samples of clean water and water that is running through our streets and into the Bay.

• Grow plants using different amounts of water and show what the difference in growth is.

• Draw a poster that shows or encourages recycling of soda cans, water bottles or other drink containers.

• Search the Internet and create a flyer that lists the sites you found so that families or classrooms can visit to learn about recycling drink containers.

• Use drink containers, such as juice bottles and water bottles or soda cans, to create an art project: make a sculpture or a collage – whatever you can imagine

• Create small planters out of bottles you cut in half and decorate – plant a flower or other type of garden – what a great gift giving idea!

• Make a coloring or activity book that teaches kids how important it is to recycle drink containers instead of throwing them in the trash. Maybe you can teach children to use a thermos instead of a non-re-useable container.

• Write and illustrate (draw pictures) a book telling a story about what happens to our bottles when we recycle them. Do you know what happens? The Internet has a ton of information on this.

• Make a board game or a treasure hunt game that teaches children to recycle drink containers. Maybe the game pieces are made from colored bottle tops and the game board is made from the soda-can box.

• Find a great cause to support. Hold a fundraiser and collect drink containers. Turn the containers into the recycler and collect the money from them. Take pictures; explain how you promoted the fundraiser and how you used the money to help your cause. Contact the newspaper and get them to write about your fundraiser. Use a copy of the story in your display.

• Decorate a recycling collection container in a way that gets attention.

• Perform a scientific study to see whether your decorated container or a regular (plain) recycling container collected more drink bottles at your school.

These are just a few ideas to get you thinking. You can use one of them or come up with your own unique idea. There is no wrong idea. Just do something that teaches your family or friends to recycle or use less drink containers (such as soda cans, juice bottles and water bottles).