In our class, we use the plastic caps off bottles and build all kinds of stuff. My favorite is to stack the caps and make a tall wall. I like to use the caps to make different patterns with the different colored caps.
--Savon Green, pre-kindergarten
Courthouse Road Elementary School,
Ms. Linthicum's class
Here's a new junkyard sport, "Junky Horseshoes." You need the following old items: used tinfoil, paper towel tubes, and sand. First, you make a pile of sand; second, you stick the paper towel tubes together and put them in the middle of the sand pile. For the horseshoes, you twist the tinfoil into a U-shaped figure and try to ring it around the post. Each time you ring the tube you receive two points! When you get 20 points, you win!
--Veronica Talbert, third grade
Mary Walter Elementary School,
Ms. Baker's class
My junkyard sports would be to build a castle using lots of big boxes. It would be so much fun and I would share it with my friends. We could pretend to live in it.
--Taylesiah Norbrey, pre-kindergarten
Courthouse Road Elementary School,
Ms. Linthicum's class
The game I made is Trash Basketball. You take a paper, crumble it up, and throw it in the trash. If you make it from three feet away, you get three points. If you make a two-foot shot, you get two points. And if you miss a shot, you are out.
--Brandon Davis, third grade
Moncure Elementary School,
Ms. Morris' class
We all know the crumble-the-paper-and-shoot-for-the-trash game. But what about scraps? You can use scraps to write notes on or play a game of memory--a fun game and a good review.
--Dianne Funes, sixth grade
Ni River Middle School,
Ms. Ralph's class
My junkyard sports would be to make tunnels to run through using old big boxes. You could run like crazy from one box to another box and maybe try to catch your friends. It would be fun.
--Hannah Dahmen, pre-kindergarten
Courthouse Road Elementary School,
Ms. Linthicum's class
Here is a sport you can play with recycled stuff. You need some recycled tubes or pipes that you can link together so that there are twists and turns. Then at the end you need to build a circle out of sticks. When you're done, you can build another one so that you can play this game with someone else. The last thing you need is marbles. You can let them roll down the tubes and the person who knocks the most of the other person's marbles out of the circle wins.
--Sophie Casimes, fifth grade
Dahlgren School,
Ms. Worthy's class
My sport is "Soda Bottle Smashing." You set up old, used, plastic soda bottles on an old, empty cardboard box. Next, crush an old tin can. Next, throw the tin can at the soda bottles. Presto, you have a perfect recyclable game. I would definitely win at this game because I have a good arm. Do you want to play me?
--Brianna Ciuffo, fourth grade
Mary Walter Elementary School,
Ms. Baker's class
For my game, I would use five soda cans, one moving box and a couple of pipe cleaners. First, you would put the box about eight feet away. Next, you would try to throw the soda cans in the box. If you make it, try to take the cans out with the pipe cleaners. Count how many you got out. Then, the next person does the same thing. Whoever gets the most cans with the pipe cleaners in 30 seconds wins.
--Kryslyn Bosserman, fourth grade
Rocky Run Elementary School,
Ms. Quattlebaum's class
Do you like soda? Well, drink a whole can of soda, crush the can, get out some brooms and play "Soda Can Hockey." You play this game by going to a cement or blacktop area, and take a piece of chalk to draw a very large rectangle. Put the can in the middle of the rectangle and then form two teams. The goal is to use your broom to push the can across your opponent's line for a goal. That is how you take some junk and make a junkyard sport.
--Clair Huffine, fourth grade
Mary Walter Elementary School,
Ms. Baker's class