Uplands grade 5 pupils recently come up with an idea of creating a rhino board with recycled bottle tops. The project was discussion with the architect of the art project, Rose Hall and was carefully planned. The grade 5 class had a project before on Endangered Animals and the Rhino was perfect for what they were planning.
The big search for bottle tops started, it was the black and red tops they were looking for as red has always been the colour to depict danger.
Looking for enough black tops as a fitting contrast to the red was a problem until the girls found the Coke zero tops. There was an amazing result in the end. Coca-Cola also showed interest in buying the art work but Uplands wish to keep all the children’s hard work.
Two of our families who have rhinos on their game farms delivered red plastic rhino horns to school one day, which we decided to use when taking the photo to show concern for this best-loved Big 5 species of Mpumalanga.
