This resource offers a great way to teach children about recycling and upcycling materials. In upcycling, unusable or broken objects and materials aren’t thrown out, but instead used again in another, similar way. Often you end up with a totally different and high value product. In our case, worthless old newspaper is transformed into first-class Christmas decorations!
Old newspaper is actually a particularly interesting material that contains different languages, fonts, columns, graphics, comics, photos, crossword puzzles, advertisements, movie reviews, and such, and which can fire your creativity and imagination in a very special way. The effect that even simple decorations can have is quite astonishing!
To get started, all you need is to download our Newspaper Christmas Decorations resource.
For the baubles idea prepare two pieces of paper for each. Long bauble 8x4 inches (20x11 cm), short bauble 6x6 inches (16x16 cm). Fold them twice as shown and make the desired template.
