Macaroni Is For Eating ONLY

Sometimes, between programs on my local PBS (Pretty Bad Stuff) station, a chubby, terminally cheerful woman gathers some children together to create "art" from trash. She trots out old newspapers, magazines, toilet paper rolls, pieces of styrofoam of varied shapes and sizes, etc., and in 2-3 minutes forces the toddlers to make really unattractive pieces of useless stuff which their parents will have to lie about when praising their little darling's creativity. So what we have is a brief lesson on how to turn trash into trash. How productive. . .