The main purpose of this activity is to make students aware of the importance of recycling and giving things a second new life.
WORKSHOPS FOR THE ENGLISH IMMERSION IN CERCEDILLA.
1st) How to do a jewellery box out of recycled materials: streamers.
Materials:
- Streamers
- Glue stick
- White glue
- A brush
Instructions:
1. Wind a streamer on itself until it is finished.
2. Then, attach the following streamer with glue stick to the previous until the appropriate size is achieved.
3. Then, push the roll to make it concave.
4. Then, varnish the jeweller with white glue.
2nd) How to do a tree out of recycled materials: copper wires.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcC5opK-VIU
Step by step:
1. Cut several strands of wire of about 20cm long and knot all of them with one of the ends, leaving about 5cm on one side and the rest in another.
2. We have to divide the wires in groups of 2 or 3 strands of wire and then we have to twist all of them at once (with the help of pliers to form the roots of the tree).
3. To make the trunk, press the wires with the help of pliers and twist all the wires we have left untied on top to the one we tied before.
4. We have to separate the top in branches of 2 or 3 strands of wire. Twist the branches and the trunk.
5. Create leaves by making small circles with the wire as we create the branches.
6. We have to roll up the largest group of wires to finish the trunk.
7. We have to modify the branches, trunk and roots to make the tree stand up.
8. Then, we have to mould the clay in order to provide our bonsai with a ground base.
9. Then, varnish the small holes in every branch with nail polisher.
3rd) How to do Can Bowling: cans.
Material:
- 6 cans of cola,
- Used paper,
- Different colour temperas,
- Brush.
Instructions:
- Make a ball
with the used paper. Paint the ball black. Add three white dots.
- Paint each
can.
- Add white dots;
large and small.
- Paint black numbers
on the front. Seal the cans to prevent the paint from chipping.
4th) Recycled
bottle piggy bank
What you'll
need:
- Plastic
bottle, cleaned and dried
- Paper
- Paints
- Streamers
- 4 water bottle
or soda bottle caps, cleaned and dried
- Scissors
- Glue
What you'll do:
- Set your
bottle on its side and cut an opening in the center of the
"back" where your money will go.
- Using paper,
cut out two leaf shapes with a tab at the bottom to create your piggy's
ears. Glue to the bottle.
- Using your
bottle cap as a template, trace and cut a circle shape from your paper
scraps and glue to the top of the cap.
- Curl a small
length of ribbon and glue to the bottom of your bottle to form a tail.
- Adhere bottle caps to the bottom of the "piggy" to form
"feet." Allow to dry and start filling with coins!
5th) How to give a
second new life to magnets you may have at home: glue a colored paper to them
and draw anything on them!
Before
After.
