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Creating Dye From Discards

Lower School art students worked with SAGE, Hockaday’s food provider, to salvage vegetable skins and peels for art projects. 
Students cleaned and scraped avocado skins and onion peels that they will use to make natural dyes; the students will then dye skeins of yarn to use in their creations. This process teaches students about how to rethink about their natural world, and how to find use in materials that might have otherwise been discarded. 
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