Festive Craft Without the Waste - City of Stonnington

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Posted 2024-11-01 by Jen ⇒ follow

Sat 30 Nov 2024 - Wed 04 Dec 2024

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Tis the season when our thoughts wander towards all things festive. Get in early and prep yourself towards a more sustainable Christmas. Your creative output is as limitless as your imagination. You can basically look around your home and garden and find things that can be transformed with a bit of thought and creativity. Here are a couple of event dates with the Stonnington Library and Information Service to help you out.

Bring holiday cheer to your home with a natural Christmas Wreath . This is a free event, however, bookings are required for every attendee (bookings open 10am on 1 Nov 2024) for Saturday 30 Nov 2024 from 10.30am to 12.30pm at the Phoenix Park Library, 30 Rob Roy Road, Malvern East. The Urban Nanna will guide you to make a wreath using natural materials. At the end of the workshop, you will take home a gorgeous Christmas wreath. This is a beginner-friendly workshop for adults. All materials are supplied. Bargain; free, materials supplied, and you get to take home the goods.

There's a second event on Wed 4 December 2024 from 6-7.30pm for those of you who can't make it to a day event. Again, free, but must book. See here for details . Do note this is at a different venue and will be held at the Malvern Library, 1255 High St, Malvern. If you have no time to attend, there's always 'google' - to be guided to a plethora of ideas to decorate in a planet-friendly manner at Christmas time, instead of heading for the tidal wave of plastic decorations hitting shop shelves.

Recycle some of the tinsels and plastic baubles of years gone by that you've collected to reuse, and decorate using them with joyful abandon.

Try some dried orange slice garlands that smell amazing

Cook up some zero-waste salt dough stars for Christmas decorations - they look amazing on a tree or used in your gift wrapping

If you're handy at crochet, crochet yourself some Christmas tree baubles

Origami decorations if you're a dab hand at it, using old wrapping paper, colourful magazine pages etc

Saved glass bottles as candle holders with a touch of foliage or even a salt dough star at the neck

Paperbag stars; orange peel garland; popcorn and cranberry garland; pinecone garland; and perhaps even gum nuts; rosemary wreaths; toilet roll tube snowflakes - you get the idea.

By now your mind is probably churning with a few great ideas yourself. They're also fun projects you can involve the whole family in, a childhood memory to remember forever. I still remember the popcorn garlands I used to sit and thread with my mother, so go ahead and create those special moments.