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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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Book Review: The Festival of Lights

As if Diwali weren’t colorful and fun enough, The Festival of Lights: A Lift-the-flap Diwali Celebration by Namita Moolani Mehra, illustrated by Darshika Varm, makes it even more fun to read about with flaps and things to lift and pull to see more information or details in the illustrations. 

The book is a story about a family getting ready for Diwali and what happens on the different days of the five-day celebration. There’s cleaning, shopping, crafting, food preparation and getting the home altar ready for the big day. 

It covers decorating the outside of the house with rangoli, diyas and lanterns, buying sweets to share with family and friends, the sights and scents of the mandir (home temple), getting dressed up in new fancy clothes, the story of Diwali and celebrations with relatives.  

Flaps (there are more than 140 in all) give you vocabulary words for different foods and definitions, as well as fun things like what’s inside the shopping basket or where the cat is hanging out. They also help illuminate the story of Diwali, which is the triumph of good over evil as Lord Ram defeated the demon Ravana to save his wife, Sita. 

This pretty and colorful book helps kids understand what Diwali is and how it is celebrated, regardless of whether they practice it at home. This would be a nice book to keep in a classroom (it’s rated for kids ages 3-7) or to have at home to teach kids about Diwali even if it’s not something you celebrate. Where I live there are a lot of people from India so we are probably exposed to Diwali more than some other regions of America, but it’s a nice holiday to know about wherever you live. 

Combine with the book Diwali and check out some fun lantern crafts and printables for kids to round out your experience. 

About the book: 24 pages, hardcover, published 2025 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail prices $22.99.