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YEE new campaign on Upcycling has started!

We want to show and promote many ideas how to make new useful objects from trash!

Check the info on our website in the special Upcycling section.

We would like to involve in our campaign the whole YEE network and all other interested people!

So take part in our Upcycling contest!

• Send us your idea for an upcycling object. Send us a description how to do it and photos.

We will publish it at YEE website and facebook page 'Upcycling Campaign'.

The inventor of the best upcycling idea can win many YEE gifts and a selected upcycled object from our list.

So start upcycling and share your ideas with us!

How else can you join Upcycling Campaign?

• Organise an upcycling workshop and send us news about it.
• Promote our campaign and show it to your friends.

If you want to join us, write to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

There are many interesting websites and articles where you can find new exciting and useful ideas for upcycling.

http://www.upcyclethat.com/

http://www.boredpanda.com/creative-reuse-upcycling-repurposing-ideas/

http://www.facebook.com/upcyclista

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Recyclart/97844269502

http://www.upcyclemagazine.com/

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alannaokun/30-easy-and-cuddly-diy-ideas-for-recycling-old-swe

http://howaboutorange.blogspot.cz/search/label/recycled

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jewjitsu/5-great-pieces-of-upcycled-artwork-8bv

http://www.i2.pt.vu/ (in Portuguese)

http://scraphacker.com/

Has it ever happened to you that you lost one glove and didn't know what to do with the other one? Now you can use it to make a toy. You can make a teddy bear or a squirrel and offer it to a child. Or keep it for yourself :)

A list of materials needed

• - an old glove,
• - scissors,
• - pen that can write on fabric,
• - a small button,
• - stuffing (can be old wool, cotton or pieces of old fabric),
• - thread (black and in the color of the glove).

A step by step guide for construction

1. Choose a glove.

2. Draw lines on the glove with the pen that can write on fabric according to the following scheme.

3. Prepare the stuffing to all parts of the toy. We used old t-shirt for this.

4. Cut the parts. Then start sewing the body and remember to turn it inside out to hide the thread.

5. Sew together all parts of the toy. You should have a body together with legs, arms, ears and a head.

6. Decide if you want to make a teddy bear or a squirrel. If you want to make a squirrel, add the long tail. Teddy bear can have small tail.

6. Sew a small button as a nose of your toy.

7. Sew 2 eyes with a black thread. Or draw them with the pen.

8. Offer it to a child you know or keep it as your own mascot.

More photos and explanations soon in our Upcycling booklet!

Upcycling Contest winners:

CD earring	Corks for jewelery	Flower pots	Jeans bag
By: Blerta Meta (Albania)	By: Klodjana Saraci (Albania)	By: Liliana Dango (Albania)	By: Rinalda Proko (Albania)

Others Upcycling ideas:

Toy from a glove	Gift bag from a calendar	Bottle pots	Mural

Urban Garden

Check more Upycling ideas in Upcycling booklet.

Participating organisations

	Armenia	Stepanavan Youth Center	SYC is a non profit, non governmental organization founded in 2001. The mission of the SYC is to promote active youth citizenship and youth participation in addressing social, cultural and environmental issues in local communities organizing training, consultations, special projects, campaign, spreading information and providing possibilities for exchange of information and competences with their peers.
	Portugal	Organisation for the promotion of Ecoclubes	OPE, a group of 100 young volunteers, promotes ecoclubes in Portugal. The mission of OPE is to work for youth development for the environment, civil society and the quality of life. Activities are directed to promote the organization of awareness activities for local communities about the importance of their participation in solving problems that affect their quality of life and stability of ecosystems; enhance communication mechanisms between ecoclubes in order to facilitate the exchange of experiences and information; build partnerships and promoting team spirit between the OPE and other organizations; publicize ecoclubes activities to other existing organizations through various media and initiatives; promote experience and intercultural exchange among young people in the OPE, through participation in national and international exchanges, training courses and other different formal and non-formal activities.
	Albania	EDEN Centre	The EDEN (Environmental center for Development Education and Networking) center is a non-governmental, not politically oriented, not for profit organization aiming to contribute in a sustainable development and healthy environment through informing, educating and offering services in partnership with the interested actors. It works on four thematic pillars: Capacity Building, Environmental Education; Environmental Management Practices; Public Information and Participation.
	Russian Federation	AYA	AYA is a Russian non-profit and non-governmental organization with its activities based on the principles of voluntariness, equal rights of members of the organization, self-governance, legality, transparency. We organize international volunteer projects in Russia focused on environmental education and active citizenship. We also promote the idea of volunteering and ecological responsible traveling among Russian youth.
	Armenia	Khazer	"Khazer" Ecological and Cultural NGO is a public organization, founders, members and participants of which are united by the idea, according to which basis of a society self-organization, as well as sustainable development of public relations is preservation and restoration of national traditions, customs and, in general, spiritual heritage. The NGO activities are built upon the principle according to which protection and careful attitude to nature are, first of all, moral issues, which are interrelated with protection of cultural and spiritual heritage in general. The organization is especially engaged in identification of the linkage between environmental issues and human health. The NGO was also involved in environmental education and awareness raising activities for population.
	Latvia	Balta Daba	Association „BALTA DABA” („White Nature”) was founded in 2010 with a goal to promote the society's engagement in the preservation and renewal of the natural and cultural values. We dream to live in a country where people do not try to conquer the nature but gain an inspiration, an advice and a joy from it.
	Czech Republic	Youth and Environment Europe	Youth and Environment Europe (YEE) is a platform of many European youth organisations that study nature or are active in environmental protection. These member organisations come together from 26 countries. The aim of YEE is to encourage youth to be involved in environmental protection and to provide a platform where these organisations can work together.