R for recycling
Recycle Paper to make your own paper
Materials:
- old paper
- 2 bowls
- Mixer
- an old picture frame and wire
Instruction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5VJbBbNRKk
How to use
Use your selfmade paper for greeting cards or letters!
Recycle an old T-Shirt to make a shopping-bag
Materials:
- 1 old T-Shirt
- Scissors
- 2 hands that know how to make knots
Instruction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAsF6lWGjBg
How to use
Go shopping with your own bag and leave plastic bags behind!
Recycle wash-detergent containers to handicraft your own toys
Materials:
- old detergent bottle
- Cutter
- glue
- old paper or acryl-colors
Instruction:
https://args.feverxl.de/index.php/s/r1HgYs4HIxBZYFI
How to use
Have fun playing!
Recycle different sized boxes and plastic lids to handicraft toys for a doll-house or playmobil
Recycle milk or juice containers to handicraft a guitar
Materials:
- juice or milk box
- scissors
- 4 different sized ribbons
- ice-cream sticks or 2 pencils
- color
Instruction:
How to use
Have fun playing songs!
Recycle milk or juice boxes to handicraft a bird-house
Materials:
- juice or milk box
- scissors
- a spray
- string
- color
- bird food
Instruction:
Try to figure it out!
How to use
Hang it in January and February into your garden or balcony and observe!
R for Reuse
Reuse newspaper to handicraft a color-circle
Materials:
- black sheet of paper
- color newspaper pieces
- scissors
- glue
Instruction:
Cut different colored images out and sort them by color.
Glue same colors on a triangle spot.
How to use
Hang it into your room or use it as a colorful selfmade present!
Reuse cork as meeples
Materials:
- cork from wine bottles
- white color
- old white and black fabric
- glue
Instruction:
Check out the picture!
How to use
Use the meeples for different games!
Reuse old fabric for making a doll
Materials:
- old fabric cut in strings of the same size
- 5 strings
Instruction:
Take a minimum of 24 strings or more (it needs to by dividable by 6).
Put the upper strings into a U and tie it with yarn - this is the head.
Next we will make the doll’s arms. Lift a small number of yarn strands (around 6) and braid them. Tie where the doll’s wrists should be. Repeat on the opposite side.
Cut another piece of yarn and tie it an inch or so underneath the arms, creating the torso of the doll. The torso should be about the same size as or slightly larger than the head.
If you want your doll to wear a skirt, you are finished. If you would like your doll to wear pants, divide the skirt in half and braid each side, tying off with more yarn.
Reuse plastic bottles as vase, pencil holder or toy-fish
Materials:
- plastic bottles
- colors
- used wrapping paper
Reuse lids for art-projects
Materials:
- bottle-lids
- paint
- colored sheet of paper
Reuse old fabric for sewing projects
Materials:
- big sized fabric
- different types of leftover fabric or old fabric cut into small pieces
- sewing maschine or needle and yarn
- a lot of hands, patience and time
Reuse plastic containers and old fabric to create a easter-basket
Materials:
- old fabric cut in strings of the same size
- fruit basket from Litschis
Instruction:
Check it out!
Reuse To-Go-Cups for an art-project
Materials:
- 2 used and cleaned to Go-Cups if you still don`t use your own!
- Paint
Instruction:
Check it out!
How to use
If you don`t feel like talking - use your cup to show how you feel!
Task for students - Be creative and reuse and recycle different materials!
This student build the man-made greenhouse effect with old boxes and reused also other materials
This student created a book-box from a old shoe box
This student made a mask of a paper plate
This student handicrafted a cow
