Holz, Stein, Metall, töpfern

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 hat 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 store

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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
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