Holz, Stein, Metall, töpfern

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Die bereits vorhandene Kreativität der Teenies fördern und zum Zuge kommen lassen, durch das Planen, Entwerfen und Realisieren eines gemeinsamen Projektes. Es ist möglich und sinnvoll, die Art und Ausführung eines Projektes im Wettbewerb von den Teenies selber ausarbeiten zu lassen. Die gemeinsame Realisierung des Projektes soll zu einem Erfolgserlebnis führen, welches anspornt zu mehr kreativen Tätigkeiten (Projekt kann mit Öffentlichkeitsarbeit kombiniert werden!

Four different project types

The way to do it:

  • Select ideal project for your TC or select with teens
  • Estimate costs and effort
  • Contact political community for projects planned in public places or specifically for the public
  • If necessary, call in experts as consultants
  • Clarify where machinery and special equipment can be borrowed
  • Figure out the idea (possibly plans) in more detail and think about it
  • Procure materials
  • Let creativity, resp. teens prevail

Effort:

  • Planning the project
  • Gathering the necessary machines/tools
  • Finances for materials
  • Labor requirements depending on the project
  • Motivating leaders and teens for the project
  • Possibly design whole weekend with the support of a professional

Aids:

  • Workbooks, hobby books, and theme books
  • Advice and ideas from professionals
  • Creativity from the team and teens

Wood, stone, metal, pottery

WOOD, ideas

  • Carpentering massive tables and benches
  • Building models (car, animals, etc. in normal and larger dimensions)
  • Build soapbox and organize a race in the village
  • Craft wooden toys (puzzle, mobile, etc.)
  • 1 Week Robinson's playground - who will build the most beautiful hut out of slab boards
  • Set up giant chair
  • Craft large cross for church or youth room
  • Build swing, play tower, etc. for nursery or kindergarten
  • Build raft
  • Build tree huts for youth group

Materials:

  • Ward boards from sawmill
  • Waste from veneer and planing mill, as well as local carpentry and joinery
  • Do-it-yourself center
  • Glue
  • Screws/nails
  • Ropes
  • Tools depending on project

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STONE, ideas

  • Plastics, sculptures, sculpture, art objects
  • Making with stone, glass concrete, figurines
  • Mosaic (possibly large area, with interlocking stones)
  • Establish a wall in a square as a think piece
  • Eternalize the feet and hands in cement slabs
  • Make models like cars, group of upholstery, animals etc. in stone
  • Brief weights
  • Make pyramid, castle, house, etc. Models from small bricks
  • Set up cheminé station for community
  • Create faces with plaster
  • Gypsum eggs as Easter surprise
  • Covering a styrofoam figure with plaster

Material:

  • Plasterboard
  • Powdered gypsum (white plaster: Lenolit)
  • Natural stones from the stream
  • Possibly old gravestones
  • Backstones
  • Glass concrete (Siporex or Ytong is suitable like Styrofoam from the processing, but is hard!)
  • Firebrick

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METAL, ideas

  • Wire figures
  • Create the body of a junk car
  • Disassemble and put together an old car engine
  • Make wind harps out of metal tubes, nails
  • Craft a tandem out of two old bicycles
  • Sculpture from scrap metal
  • Turn an oil drum into an oven
  • Laying a water pipe for a mountain farmer
  • "Güggel" made from tin
  • Craft knights out of tin cans
  • Craft copper and brass jewelry
  • Have homemade items chrome plated
  • Invent original barbecue

Materials:

  • Sheet metal, wire, iron profiles
  • Canned goods cans
  • Scrap metal, scrap metal
  • Waste from locksmith or plumbing shop

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POTTERS, ideas

  • Crazy Mugs
  • Noah's Ark or Nativity figurines for nursery
  • Oil lamps
  • Vases
  • Plates with dedication, Bible verse
  • Brooches
  • Dinnerware for congregation
  • Figures and shapes on a theme

Material:

  • Clay
  • Pottery wheel
  • knife
  • Glaze/colors

Source credits

Content: Teenie Working Group, Margrit Hugentobler
copyright: BESJ Fällanden www.besj.ch
Image: Juropa.net www.juropa.net

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