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The Trash Evening
| Cost: | middle |
| People: | 6 - 30 |
| Length: | 2 hours |
| Material/organisation: | middle - high |
| Age: | from 8 years |
| Place: | not relevant |
| Season: | not relevant |
| Action: | middle |
| Material: | bags, tins, egg boxes, cardboard box etc. |
| Goal: | try to design things from trash (example: elaborate costumes) |
| Short text: | Trash can be used to play games, to design instruments or make costumes. |
Playing materials do not have to be expensive and the finances in some groups aren’t always available. With the following ideas you can achieve a lot and spend less.
You can find everything you need at a recycling centre. Or you can collect everything that might be useful.
Fashion show
You can use:
- Plastic bags
- Tins (washed out)
- Boxes
- Tetra packs (washed out)
- Boxes for eggs
- Tin foil (you can use it to make a knight amour)
- Polystyrene
To make costumes with those things you need also: A spike (for the tins), rope, sticky tape, elastic, glue for the boxes and a stapler.
After the game, you can bring everything back to the recycling plant.
The trash orchestra
- Make bongos and drums from different tins and washing powder boxes.
- Put stretch elastics over a cup and you get “some kind” of guitar.
- Rattles and rain pipes (fill pebbles into long paper pipes)
- A glockenspiel (hang up tins, in different sizes, on a rope)
- Clink bottles (fill water into glass bottles, in different sizes)
Game ideas
- Recycle trash: You have to sort 100-400 items (sheet metal, glass, paper, plastic, deposit items etc.)
- In a skip there are 100 different objects. Try to remember as many things as possible. Time limit: 60 seconds
- Tin shooting
- Pyramid stacking with tins
- Frisbee game with egg boxes
- Polystyrene- egg-shred- battle: Throw the packaging into the field of your opponent
- Use a plastic foil as water pipe and let the water flow from A to B
- Cork game with old wine corks
- Bottle game with plastic bottles
- Crown cap fishing with a magnetic fishing rod
Questions concerning the issue of recycling
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