Ladybug Rain Barrel
Timber Lakes Elementary School – Project “The Ladybug Rain Barrel” by our team “The Ladybugs”
We are a team of 3rd Graders – Anna G., Asher B., Avika M., Dylan G., Maaya M. and Morgan B.
Our Energy Inspired Art is called “Ladybug Rain Barrel”. We have made this because we love nature and we need to protect our nature.
It helps the environment in biodiverse ways. We all worked as a team to make this project. We also voted to name the project and everyone agreed it should be “Ladybug Rain Barrel”. Our Rain Barrel has four sides and we have tried our best to paint the ladybugs and flowers on the rain barrel, together. Dylan painted the “Sunrise”. Avika and Morgan painted the “Daytime”. Asher painted the “Sunset” and, Anna and Maaya painted the “Nighttime”. We all wrote the details for our parts for the video recording and then we combined our write-ups for the web page. Maaya worked on the webpage design with help from our teachers. Our teachers also helped us record the video.
We were so lucky, while we were recording a video it actually started to rain and we all got excited and happy for our “Ladybug Rain Barrel ” to fill up.
Ladybugs love our art and we really have ladybugs also visiting every now and then. We were able to take a picture of a ladybug visiting. Please check it out!
We hope you will enjoy our art as much as we enjoyed creating it and learning so many new things about our environment from Mrs. Gower and Mrs. Hammond.
With our art we want to tell people that
“It is important to take care of our planet and Rain Barrels are a simple and easy way to do that!“
Rain barrels are like big buckets that people use to collect and conserve rainwater that falls from the sky. By using rain barrels, people can save water and use it to water plants and gardens, instead of using water from a hose or a sprinkler. This helps the environment because it saves energy as we don’t need an electric sprinkler to water all our plants.
Our Ladybug Rain Barrel is made of recyclable material that is safe for the environment. Our inspiration for the art on the rain barrel was the Ladybugs for their bright colors and their role in our gardens. The paint we have used is a special non-toxic, “bee-safe” acrylic paint suitable for gardens. The bright, beautiful, and bold colors of yellow, red, pink and white will naturally attract bugs.
We want the Ladybugs and other bugs to feel welcome and pollinate the flowers. Pollinators are animals that help to spread pollen in different places. They get pollen from the flowers and drop it on other flowers to make more flowers. Ladybugs are great pollinators and help with the growth of the plants.
Ladybugs will also to eat the aphids, protect our plants and make our garden healthy.
Flowers in our art are also there to show that plants give us fresh air by absorbing the carbon dioxide and breathing out oxygen
TOP VIEW OF OUR RAIN BARREL
Our Ladybug rain barrel is unique as it holds rain water and also has an area to grow plants. The seeds were planted on top of our barrel for the purpose of adding to our garden’s BIODIVERSITY.
We used “Bee the Change” seeds from the Bloom & Grow Garden Society. The seeds are “Bee-Friendly Wildflowers”, to spread healthy plants for bees all the way to our school in East Orlando( the company is located in the west). We are trying to make a trail from the west to east so it can help the bees.
Ladybugs!!! Let’s go wolfpups!! I loved your video and your energy is awesome! I love your colorful rain barrel . It is so neat to put the plants right there and not waste any drop of the previous water. Keep up the good work!
You all did a wonderful job on your project! I also LOVE the ladybug theme.