Bank of Bow-Wow

I love arts and crafts type projects! So when my brother Joe was assigned a project to make something useful out of recyclables I was more than happy to help :) His dad and him gathered the recyclables and then his dad put it together with nuts and bolt. Joe wanted to make a cat, but when it turned out to look more like a dog then he decided to make it a dog :) I still think it looked the most like a horse or donkey. Joe chose to paint it blue, green and brown. Or earth colors as he said. So we started off by taking it outside my apartment and spray painting the whole thing blue with this special plastic paint. He had a ball! I had him read the directions and do the spray paint himself. With a few pointers along the way, like not standing downwind when he sprayed it ;) Also I'm well aware of the irony of using spray paint for a recyclables project.

Once the dog dried we brought him in and Joe painted the rest of him with the green and brown. I only have two paint spots on my carpet from it too ;) Sometimes putting something under a project seems futile. While Joe painted him, I made the collar.

The first Bank of Bow-Wow received an A+ in science, it's also a piggie bank and you can take the money out by undoing the lid. Now it's at Science Central in the Trash to Treasures contest :)

I take way too many photos of my baby brother, but I love him!