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Polymers are everywhere! 16. The crafts cave Most of the stores in this mall show you stuff made out of polymers. In this store, youre going to see how you can make your own stuff from polymers. This place is crawling with polymers, so its hard to know where to begin. Well start with the big bag of polyester stuffing that you can use to stuff pillows, quilts, stuffed animals, or whatever youre making. Wanna know something? A lot of this stuffing is made from recycled soft drink bottles. Thats right. We can make quilt stuffing from bottles. Pretty cool, huh? For the outside of your quilt, you can use fabrics like the bolts you see on the left, or the burlap you see on the right, that is, if you want a really scratchy quilt. These fabrics are made of a blend of polyester and cotton. Cotton is a polymer, too. Its made up mostly of cellulose. If youd like to decorate the outside of your project with some embroidery, youll need some thread. Thread is made from things like nylon, polyester, and polyacrylonitrile. Of course, youll need an embroidery hoop, too. This one is made of a plastic called polyethylene. Like to knit? Then it helps to have a few skeins of yarn. This yarn is made of polyacrylonitrile. But knitting isnt all one can do with yarn. You can make cross-stitched pictures with it using these polyethylene templates. If youre sewing clothes instead of quilts, you might need some elastic. It is made of polyester and a kind of rubber called polyisoprene to make it stretchy. No project would be complete without some big chunks of styrofoam. These are always good for making models of the solar system for school projects. Styrofoam is a form of polystyrene. Painting shows on TV are great because theyre so relaxing. Those shows are possible thanks to paints made from something called methyl methacrylate. When it dries, it reacts to form a polymer called poly(methyl methacrylate). When I was a kid I used to put model cars