Having fun while recycling: christmas crafts

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Reduce – Reuse - Recycle Celebrating our Christmas activity: “Having fun while recycling!”

Christmas tree from old magazines

Huge Christmas ornament from old cds and volleyball

Flowers from old CDs Snowman from waste plastic cups

Nativity scene from cloth, branches and pasta

… and this is just the frontpage! 31 pages full of creative Xmas crafts made by students from France, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, and Turkey!


Cleopatra, Greece

Yannis, Greece

Bartek, Poland


Some crafts made by Luisa and Rosa‌

A candle, made using a little plastic glass, in which they put wax and then decorated it.

They also decorated some old plastic plates: they used decorated tissues, which they sticked on the plates.

Luisa and Rosa, Italy


Domenico and his friends created some Christmas balls made of old polystyrene; they covered them with paper and then sticked on them a tissue with a Christmas theme.

Domenico, Italy


Annarita and Emilia’s craft is a penholder, made with a used tin, covered with ice-cream sticks; they wrapped it with a satin ribbon

Annarita and Emilia, Italy


Mario and Luigi crafted some Christmas ornaments from old cardboards and newspaper

Mario and Luigi, Italy

Chiara crafted a Santa placeholder, to put on a table.

It is made with cardboard and a sheet of cork

Chiara M., Italy


Maria Zoe, Greece

Antonia, Greece Adamantia, Greece

Vasiliki, Greece



Shall we tell you the way we decorated our Christmas tree? First, we picked up all the waste from the court yard. This is part of the “Eco-Ecole� 2011/12/13 environment campaign. Then, we decided to use the waste to decorate our tree so: 1. we used plastic gloves in order to keep our hands clean; 2. afterwards, we used fishing thread: we tied it around wrappers in order to make Christmas bows; 3. eventually, we took cans and tied fishing thread (again) to hang the cans on our Xmas tree branches. We hope you like our Xmas tree. We think it is colourful and easy to make. Pupils in Year 3 (Grade 8) College JS Pons


Nowadays people do not use CDs very often. Anna Sintija found a very creative way how these CDs could be useful.

She collected 38 CDs (there was even a campaign at school - donate useless CDs) and she made flowers from CDs.

Anna Sintija, Latvia


She heated the discs, when they became softer she folded them until they got an appropriate shape.

These flowers will never fade, they are everlasting!!!


Sergejs is 9 years old. He made a wonderful Christmas tree from used paper.

Sergejs made a spine (a nail in the cardboard) for the tree and folded the paper to make "the branches" for the paper fir tree.


Finally, he made a tree-top and sprayed the tree with glossy spray.

Sergejs, Latvia


This is Ovidiu's "disco globe" made of little pieces of old CDs. They are sticked on a waste volleyball.

Ovidiu, Romania


Lacramioara painted light bulbs with water-colour and transformed them into Xmas tree ornaments.

Lacramioara, Romania


Marianna’s craft is a snowman; she first covered two paper balls with old wool and joined them together with hot glue. Then she decorated it with little pieces of cloth and a plastic glass.

Marianna, Italy Chiara A. and Chiara C. made a Christmas tree; on a cardboard cone they sticked many cotton disks (used to remove makeup), then they put on some pasta which has been formerly gold plated

Chiara A. and Chiara C., Italy


This little Christmas painting was made by Domenico, Mario and Luigi.

They sticked on a thin layer of plastic a Christmas tissue; then they glued all around it a golden piping.

Domenico, Mario and Luigi, Italy


Luisa, Chiara A., Rosa, Chiara C., and Marianna made this nice roof tile with a Christmas theme; they’ve been helped by one adult.

Luisa, Chiara A., Rosa, Chiara C. and Marianna, Italy

Rosa and Marianna’s craft: a wreath made with cardboard covered with old golden tinsel.

Rosa and Marianna, Italy


Eleni describes how she crafted her Christmas ball :

Firstly you buy a styrofoam ball. Then you cut 2 old CDs into small pieces and you stick the pieces on the ball. But you can't stick all pieces together. You have to wait until the first round dries and then you can go on. As soon as you finish gluing, put the ribbon with the pin in the ball. Now it's ready!!!!

Eleni, Greece

Radis, Greece

Nikos Ch., Greece


Hi, I'm Nick Salpistis and I will describe how I made the ball. To create the ball I used half box glitter, small pieces of an old cd and a ball of polystyrene. Firstly, I bought the ball, then I cut the cd into small pieces and I sticked them on the ball. Finally I put on the ball glitter!

Nick Salpistis, Greece

Hi, I am Vangelis from Greece and I made a Christmas ball from Polystyrene. I used old CDs (which were broken into pieces), Xmas grass and a flower. This ball can be used to decorate a Xmas tree.

Vangelis, Greece


Kiriaki, Greece

Adamantia, Greece

Zoe, Greece

Maria K., Greece

Miltos, Greece


Geanina, Romania

Christina, Romania

Cristina and Geanina from Romania made Christmas trees from waste newspapers. The technique is the same on both trees: the base is made of white Bristol board, the trunk is a waste kebab stick, and on the top of the tree there is a small angel made of glass.


“Recycled” Christmas in Turkey


“Recycled” Christmas


in Turkey


The Nativity scene from old newspapers in Portugal


Wishes tree in Portugal


Bazaar from waste materials in Greece

Students organised a bazaar in our school ‌

‌ to sell all the crafts that they have created from waste.


Antonela made some very interesting Christmas ornaments from little pieces of old CDs glued on square pieces of Bristol board. These ornaments are hanged using fine thread.

Antonela, Romania


Students from Magura School made some Xmas ornaments from old CDs. These are among the best they did and we even used them to ornate our Xmas trees at school. They used very little bits of white Bristol board, glue and special ribbons.

Magura school, Romania


Emilia and Annarita made a stylized scene of Nativity, using a box, some cloth, small branches and different kinds of pasta!

Emilia and Annarita, Italy


Chiara M. with the help of her mother, crafted a nice Christmas flower, made from an old pair of pink stockings, and iron wire

Chiara M., Italy

Chiara C. created a Christmas star using old clothes peg

Chiara C., Italy


“Reduce-Reuse-Recycle” is an eTwinning project developed by: • Collège Joseph-Sebastien Pons, Perpignan, France • 6th Secondary School of Drama, Greece • IC "Marco Polo", Italy • Špoģu vidusskola, Latvia • Szkoła Podstawowa nr 7 im. T. Kościuszki w Nowej Rudzie, Poland • EB 2/3 Dom Paio Peres Correia, Portugal • Scoala cu clasele I-VIII Magura, Romania • Silivri Turgut Reis İlköğretim Okulu, Turkey visit us on: http://respect-reduce-reuse-recycle.blogspot.com/

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