WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:06.600 --> 00:00:12.830 Scrap is special because you can get all this junk 00:00:12.830 --> 00:00:15.199 and make it to Art 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:20.349 It's really cool because you're 00:00:20.349 --> 00:00:22.359 making cool stuff with stuff that you 00:00:22.359 --> 00:00:25.589 recycle to not throw away too much stuff 00:00:25.589 --> 00:00:28.830 and you could use it again to make like projects 00:00:28.830 --> 00:00:30.599 You say you are going to make art out of trash 00:00:30.599 --> 00:00:33.990 they are like ugh! that's kind of gross you know and then I 00:00:33.990 --> 00:00:35.709 and then I put out all these sparkly 00:00:35.709 --> 00:00:38.150 buttons and Marty Grass beads and things 00:00:38.150 --> 00:00:39.760 that they can use to decorate their 00:00:39.760 --> 00:00:42.029 projects and it's like it's like handy 00:00:42.029 --> 00:00:44.200 to them they're like super excited 00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:46.549 in fact one of the kindergarteners today um 00:00:46.549 --> 00:00:48.600 said can I get more surprises 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:53.389 Scrap was created 37 years ago by Amy Turner 00:00:53.389 --> 00:00:55.670 and we are actually the very first creative 00:00:55.670 --> 00:00:58.600 reused nonprofit in the world basically 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:00.320 she was in charge of placing artists 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:02.480 into schools and she had the funding to 00:01:02.480 --> 00:01:04.990 pay the artists but not enough for the 00:01:04.990 --> 00:01:07.560 for supplies so these artists were like 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:11.159 scrounging around looking for materials and 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:13.280 then she saw that there were businesses 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:15.159 throwing away paper with the wrong logo 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:16.710 on it or something that the kids could 00:01:16.710 --> 00:01:19.159 definitely draw on and then she 00:01:19.159 --> 00:01:21.950 connected the two and here we are 00:01:22.950 --> 00:01:24.960 It's really kind of a problem that 00:01:24.960 --> 00:01:26.640 schools don't have the supplies that 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:28.400 they need the budgets are all cut and 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:30.670 the teachers that are still there 00:01:30.670 --> 00:01:33.270 are left with very few resources 00:01:33.270 --> 00:01:35.109 especially in the public schools 00:01:37.109 --> 00:01:38.789 When I describe Scrap I'm like oh 00:01:38.789 --> 00:01:41.149 there's like barrels of buttons and you 00:01:41.149 --> 00:01:44.389 know all these great fabrics and papers 00:01:44.389 --> 00:01:46.230 that somebody donated that was you know 00:01:46.230 --> 00:01:48.429 in their closet or left over from a 00:01:48.429 --> 00:01:49.870 project they were working on 00:01:49.870 --> 00:01:53.950 I think it makes kids use their own inspiration to 00:01:53.950 --> 00:01:55.510 be more creative and I think that 00:01:55.510 --> 00:01:57.749 inspires the teachers so I teach 00:01:57.749 --> 00:01:59.389 teachers how they can make books with 00:01:59.389 --> 00:02:01.119 kids and in their classroom 00:02:01.119 --> 00:02:04.550 But I want people when they come to Scrap to to 00:02:04.550 --> 00:02:07.069 have ideas but I want them to look for 00:02:07.069 --> 00:02:10.350 other ideas to go a bit further I always find new 00:02:10.350 --> 00:02:14.000 ideas here I mean that's what this is 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:15.869 We actually divert um half a million pounds 00:02:15.869 --> 00:02:19.190 which is 250 tons of materials 00:02:19.190 --> 00:02:21.830 every single year and we've diverted 4 00:02:21.830 --> 00:02:24.030 million pounds of materials in the past 00:02:24.030 --> 00:02:25.309 12 years or so 00:02:26.309 --> 00:02:27.790 It's uh way better than going to the 00:02:27.790 --> 00:02:29.910 art supply store, your money goes a lot 00:02:29.910 --> 00:02:31.959 further and you're re using all this cool stuff 00:02:31.959 --> 00:02:39.920 Thank you! Thank you so much. Thank you, Take care.