KEYWORDS: FACE MASKS, MILK JUG RECYCLING, ART AND SCIENCE 4TH GRADE, DISTANCE EDUCATION LESSON 

“COVID DEFEATED” 

MASK COMPETITION

APRIL-MAY 2020

CREATE YOUR OWN FACE MASK TO GO OUTSIDE

I. Materials:  One empty 1-gal. milk jug (Rinsed at least 3 times), scissors to cut, one small Philips screwdriver or hole puncher, rubber bands or elastic, water based marker, and paper and pencil to create first a basic design. 

Web Research: images face masks out of milk jugs

II.  After you have created a basic mask, you will need art materials to decorate it and turn it into a work of art: glues, paint, plastic straws, glitter, feathers, color tissue paper, Easter grass, permanent color markers, string, wool, whatever you can think of…Be creative.  Your imagination is the limit!

III.  Rules: 1) If parents want to make a mask, they have to make one of their own. You can ask for help only in the initial cutting and shaping. 

                

2) Recycle, reuse a discarded milk jug. 3) The finished mask has to be “wearable” and “breathable”, for real.  Its purpose is to comply with the public health authorities that have required the wearing of a “face mask” while out and about. A filter may be added in the mouth of the jug. Its purposes are: A) to prevent people with a possible respiratory disease from contaminating others if they cough or sneeze, and B) for healthy people to avoid breathing directly air that may have contaminants carrying respiratory diseases. Masks are to be worn in addition to maintaining a social distance of 6 feet.

IV) PRIZES:  Masks submitted in photographs by May 8, with a complete portfolio, will enter an Art Judgement.  Judges to be announced later.  First Prize will win a Certificate and a $ 50.00 gift card. Other prizes to be announced.