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Ask: Cotton clothes for tshirt yarn

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The ECO Club is looking for your clean, worn out cotton clothes. All colours, all sizes; if it doesn’t fit and isn’t donatable, please consider taking it to our drop off bin in the atrium. Please ensure that clothes have been laundered/are clean before dropping them off. Club members will be tearing the clothes to strips to make tshirt yarn, and then the sky is the limit! Trivets, rugs, placemats, pet beds and more can be made from worn out cotton, and it keeps our old clothes from clogging up landfills. Tshirt yarn can be knitted, crocheted, or event tied/knitted by hand, and we will be teaching those skills to interested ECO Club members.

See how it works: How to make tshirt yarn.

Also, if you have knitting needles or crochet hooks (particularly large) you don’t use, we’d love to have those too! We’ll begin with finger-knitting, but it would be wonderful to have proper tools to teach basic knit and crochet stitches. Needles and hooks can also be left in the atrium bin.

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Our goal is to provide the Davisville P.S. student body the opportunity to work together with teachers, faculty, parent volunteers, experts, community members, and each other in a nurturing, inclusive and eco-focused environment. We aim to promote and deliver relevant, exciting and enriched activities and projects on a weekly basis throughout the school year while nurturing a love for the environment. Our students will have the ability to impact our community in meaningful ways through our hands on ecocentric approach to teaching, learning, sharing and taking action for a greener world!

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