Sustainable Art
5th Grade Students layered white wool fleece, sprinkled with wildflower seeds, and needle-felted designs on top using colored wool. The results are erosion control "healing blankets". They will be placed on some of the unstable silty banks of the White River that were dramatically altered by the flooding during Hurricane Irene last fall. The blankets will help stabilize the riverbank. After the seeds inside the blankets germinate, the roots of the growing wildflowers will help reduce erosion as well.
