recycling cans for a purpose!

So - we were reading a little social studies inquiry in our reading books one day and it said something about recycling soup cans for pencil holders. As we read this I got a brilliant idea - my students NEEDED something to put their pencils in due to constant digging through desks to get their pencils out every 5 min. and then 50% of the time them coming up with "I can't find mine". So - this was the solution to our problem and so we collected them and then decorated them for the Halloween season. They have actually worked quite well and have saved us some precious teaching minutes in the classroom.