Think Create Recycle
Booklet 36 young people from Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Portugal, Romania and Turkey proved that trash bins are not only the final place for a waste. Find inside creative examples of products created out of waste. It all happen during the youth exchange "Think, Create, and be Active Recycler"
Wallet and Purse rAre you always sad when you need to fish out money of your wallet? Now we have a solution for you! A happy flower designed wallet! It won't bring your money back but it can bring a little smile on your face! But watch out! you risk to love it so much that you'll be tempted to use it too many times! And if you want to go out, here you have the perfect purse - it's not big, but it's enough for you girls if you'll receive a cheque as a gift. Glass elements will make you shine more than Swarovsky ones!
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Cosmetic bag & Jamaica ball
Cosmetic bag story! Handsome businessman is travelling on a three day journey to New York. He has two meetings with a trading company. He needs only hand luggage, that's why he packs the cosmetic bag, putting his unnecessary stuff. He really loves his cosmetic bag and he always takes it on his business journeys.=) Jamaica ball this ball is the favorite toy in Jamaica. The children there organize football matches and play with this ball their favorite game. On this way they are completely happy without spending extra money to buy an expensive ball. These children in Jamaica even organize a competition about how has the most beautiful ball made by themselves. The award is to get the best Jamaica ball and to play the next game with it.
Instructions... Take an old shirt, cut the stiff part that is on the back of the shirt. Make sure that is equal when you measure the sides of the piece of material take off the buttons of the shirt ( you will need them instead of a zipper). Cut the pocket that is on the front of the shirt so you can use it as a hidden pocket inside the cosmetic bag. Sew the edges of the cut piece that you have got from the shirt. Sew the buttons on the inside upper part of the cosmetic bag. Make holes with scissors on the front upper part of the cosmetic bag. Put the cosmetics you want to take with you on your holiday and you are all set up to enjoy! :)
Instructions... Take a balloon, some woolen strings in differe nt colors and a glue blow the balloon, take the strings, wrap the balloon from all sides, and on the top and the bottom use the glue to fasten it.
Upcycled Broom
Bird House and Puppet We made these bird houses with old materials, that needed to be recycled. We have also made a Puppet with old boxes from chocolate chips. We cut the boxes in small pieces and then we unite them with straws to make them easier to move. In that straws, we also put a line of wool to make it move in our own way. And that's it, a wonderful puppet to play anytime you want.
BIRD HOUSE
PUPPET
In here, there is a box to keep your own jewelery, and it's really easy to make it, just need a package from milk, toilets rolls and wool, to decorate the rolls. We glue the rolls to be easier to decorate with wool, and than, after all be full with wool, we put them in the package of milk, decorated with all your heart and imagination.
Flip flops
Things needed: old t-shirt, glue, tape, cardboard (from juice or milk box) Instructions.... 1st - Cut the cardboard in a shape of the flip flops bottom (2 per foot) 2nd - Pierce the carton between the big toe and the median toe position 3rd - Cut stripes of tissue from the old t shirt (vertical cut) 4th - Pass the tissue stripes trough the hole in the carton 5th - Tangle the stripes in the feet holding the front part of the feet 6th and final step- Tie the stripes in the ankle
Bubby The Story... It all started in a small city in Wonderland where were living about 36 dwarfs in a very, very small house, all decorated with recycled products. They were having a healthy life, with healthy food and surrounded by wonderful landscapes and fresh air. Suddenly, in their lives showed up Sergiu – a very friendly and fluffy dog who protected those cute dwarfs. But Sergiu had also a family and he wasn't there all the time, so, in order to feel Sergiu’s presence permanently 4 dwarfs decided to create a copy of Sergiu out of recycled products like: beer cans, used paper, rope, glue and acrylic colors. And this is how Bubby appeared in dwarf’s lives. The other product created by the 4 dwarfs was a support for pencils and other desk stuff. This was made out of a simple paperboard box, plastic glass, some colors and glue. As they lived in a small house, they really needed a product like this to save some space.
Hip HopBox Group Stuff
Just as Emir was constantly littering, we felt that someone has to collect his waste and turn it into something wonderful. And then 5 such wonderful people played hip-hop and decided to take this task. Then, all a sudden we found his dirty pants in the trash (yeah ,because he hasn't change it for five days) and we took the zipper combining it with his empty bottles and “tchanan) - Emir’s pockets on a wall While taking his zipper, we also took his pockets!
Upcycled Watch After breakfast Sam broken the "WATCH" on the wall. Paulina and Emir scalded her.While Sam was crying in the corner of backyard Laura and Turkan saw her and felt sorry about what happened.They said to her "don't worry the dead watch was very old and boring, so we are gonna create a better, colorful and RECYCLED one...
The materials +Eggs Box +Silicon Gun +Watercolor +Scissors +Broken Parts of Old and Ugly Watch +Gangnam Style Song
1- We didn't throw to the box of eggs to recycle bin after breakfast 2-We cut the egg box as a watch in a proper way 3-We painted that box like a rainbow and most of the colors symbolize the colors of environment also we made extra colors by mixing blue and red color to made purple color 4-We cut the numbers and mechanism of broken watch and we used them to own new pretty and cute one. 5-We fixed the numbers and minute hands with silicon gun and the mechanism also to the back part of the watch. 6-The last step was putting a rope in the top of the watch to hang on the wall
The youth exchange "Think, Create, and be Active Recycler" took place in Struga, R. Macedonia from 20th to 29th of May. It was organized by "Volunteer Centre Bitola" organization.
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