Rain Barrel of Fun!

Creating and decorating a rain barrel is a wonderful way to collect water, which can be used to water your school's landscape, and also to teach students about the importance of water conservation. Through this creative, friendly competition, teachers of 2nd and 3rd grade student in Cobb County will get to make a rain barrel for students to decorate, making it an Earth-friendly and beautiful addition to your school campus!

Through the Rain Barrel of Fun program, waterSmart will honor two classrooms for their efforts.

The Supreme Rain Barrel Award will go to the classroom with the best barrel judged on creativity, artistic ability, teamwork and relevance to the water conservation theme. Students are encouraged to go above and beyond, however for this award, only the rain barrel design and description will be judged.

The Junior Water Warriors Award will go to the classroom who demonstrates the greatest effort in teaching other students about conservation. This can be done in the form of blog posts, videos, PowerPoint presentations, school-wide or grade-level assemblies, etc. Let your class get creative in deciding how they want to share their knowledge! Turning in materials to be considered for the Junior Water Warriors Award will not affect your chances for the Supreme Rain Barrel Award.

Download and decorate your own rain barrel and send it to us for a chance to be featured on the waterSmart Facebook page!

waterSmart will accept the first 15 Cobb County teachers to be given Rain Barrels and supplies to decorate, please call (404) 266-2600 or e-mail tblasingame@duffey.com to sign up!