The document describes craft activities where children create gift containers and snowmen from recycled materials like paper, glue, and toilet paper. The activities aim to develop children's creativity, artistic spirit, and sense of beauty while also teaching them to reuse recovered materials. Children explore properties of materials, cut and paste paper strips on containers to decorate them, and construct snowmen by pasting toilet paper balls and newspaper onto figures.

4. The workshops aim to develop
in children the sense of beauty,
the artistic spirit, creativity
and originality
at the same time educating them
to recycling or reuse of recovered
materials

5. Children explore the properties
of natural and synthetic materials

7. Pupils dilute
the glue with water

8. They cut
strips of paper
from old books,
comics and
newspapers…
and they choose also
some decorations

9. They cover
with glue
the surface
of the containers

10. They paste
the strips of paper
and cover with
diluted glue

11. Finally add
the details

14. The gift-containers
are ready!

16. Kids make balls with toilet paper and paste
on a big white wrapping paper…

18. The balls of toilet paper are pasted
on the snowman’s head, a large ball
made with newspapers
covered with white wrapping paper

19. The children fill the body
of the snowman with old newspapers

20. They placed the head on the body,
they paste the eyes, nose and mouth
in the face and they create the arms.
They dress the snowman with a big fantasy...
here’s a nice snowman!

23. Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic
Partnerships for the school
education project :“Puppets
mission: childhood without
borders“ 2014-2016