Children's Art Project Page...
Coming soon!
Promoting Environmental Awareness for kids:
Recycled Party Animals
Escondido Creek Conservancy Projects
Recycled bottle art for Ocean Conservation....
Children's Art Project: Roger the Recycled Rhino
Create your own Recycled Party Animals!
Make sure the plastic is clean... Any kind of sturdy support is fine-- we happened to have some leftover lumber
Roger is almost Finished!
A great rainy day project. Roger went on to star at a San Diego Zoo Fundraiser-- and then was adopted by a party-goer...
Roger Meets Chester the Horse
Funny how Chester recognized immediately a fellow four legged pal...
In March of 2019-- while hiking near the Escondido Creek...
I found this deer antler that had just been shed. I was so impressed I wrote something about it and donated to back the Interpretive Center on the Escondido Creek at the Elfin Forest Recreational Reserve. https://elfinforest.olivenhain.com/interpretive-center/ I live just 5 minutes away. Here is the text that accompanied it:
- You are looking at one of the treasures of the Escondido Creek! And- a story of the amazing way that Nature recycles… This antler was once worn by a young buck. The buck sheds his antlers each year and grows new ones. Other animals find these antlers on the ground and chew on them for minerals. Animals such as coyotes, squirrels, mice, foxes, opossums, and even other deer chew on them— and the minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and sodium become part of their bodies. Larger predatory animals such as mountain lion eat these smaller animals, and these mineral elements become part of their bodies. The Native people that once lived in this region hunted and ate these large and small animals— and again the elements were recycled.
- When these animals and people died, and fell to the ground— the elements were again recycled.
- Some of these elements became the soil, that then were taken up into the roots of flowers, plants and trees. The animals and man ate the plants and seeds of the trees. The elements became new bone and tissues of these animals— and the antlers of the young buck again.
- All of the web of life depends on the ability of elements to recycle from one form to another. So— you are looking at a miracle of Nature! Nothing is ever wasted.
- The elements in this antler have been a part of this land long before the native people came to live here about 8,000 years ago. The native people thought of this land along the Escondido Creek as Sacred. It is.
- This antler may contain the elements that were recycled though the creatures that once were abundant on this land: golden eagles, mountain lions, the brave and strong native people, even grizzly bears. Isn't that amazing?
