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Barrel of Craft at Reverse Garbage

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Cardboard Barrels on sale for a limited time $3/$4 each @ Reverse Garbage.

Reverse Garbage is open for trading from their new warehouse at 20 Burke St, Woolloongabba Brisbane Australia. They will be holding a Grand Opening celebrationon Saturday the 26th February.

The warehouse is bigger than their old place and will allow them to hold eco-art workshops onsite for entire classes during the school term, allow them to expand their collection of materialsand launching a new, improved giftshop!

The new warehouse is close to Park Rd train station and Boggo Rd busway. There’s a bikeway that will take you there from Southbank and by car you can access Burke st from Ipswich Rd or Annerley Rd. [here’s the map]

Grand opening of Reverse Garbage in Woolloongabba

Come along to 20 Burke St, Woolloongabba on Saturday the 26th of February for a day of fun and activities!

What’s Planned:

– Free eco-arts workshops for kids (10am – 12pm and 2pm – 4pm)
– Tours of the new warehouse
– Veggie Sausage Sizzle – Fundraiser for Friends of the Earth who are moving in upstairs at the new place!
– Heaps and heaps of salvaged materials for your next DIY or craft project!

CraftGossip readers will we see you there? Don’t forget to tell them who sent you 🙂

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Tropical Bird Crafts and Learning Activities

I don’t know why tropical animals feel like something you should learn about in the summer, because these tropical bird crafts and activities are great to do any time of year. Let’s take a look. 

Homeschool Giveaways has a printable tropical birds copywork book kids can use to practice cursive or print writing. They also have links to more fun printable activities, mostly about parrots, toucans and cockatoos.

Homeschool Share has a printable lapbook all about parrots. This one is a lot of fun because it includes things like the pros and cons of owning a pet parrot and some parrot jokes alongside information about where parrots live, why they have hooked beaks and their lifespan, among other things. 

Use colorful bird puzzles to reinforce number order with this free printable puzzle collection from Craft Play Learn. It includes five different bird puzzles that are each eight pieces. 

And if you want to look at toucans in particular, check out this toucan study guide aimed at elementary students from Tina’s Dynamic Homeschool Plus. This isn’t a free resource but it’s 31 pages all about toucans, their life cycle, anatomy, what they eat, role in the rainforest ecosystem, activities and more well worth the cost. 

How about some tropical bird crafts? This 3D macaw parrot from The Craft Train is a great one, also not free but super cute and easy to make with the printables. 

I Heart Crafty Things has a super cute parrot made with cardboard and card stock. If you hang it from the ceiling it will even spin.

Or try the cute cardboard tube parrots from Kids Craft Room, which kids will love to decorate (you could even use feathers if you have some). You can also make a parrot (or whatever other tropical bird you like) from a paper plate with these instructions from Crafts on Sea.