ACTIVITIES DAY 3
🖌️ Creative Workshop: Paper and Cardboard Art
The morning began with the “Creative Workshop: Paper and Cardboard Art,” where participants discovered how simple materials could be used to express complex ideas. Using recycled paper and cardboard, they learned techniques like cutting, folding, layering, and painting, bringing to life vibrant eco-art pieces that reflected their personal connection to the environment.
The room buzzed with creativity and collaboration as young artists from Greece, France, Portugal, and Turkey worked side by side. The session concluded with a gallery walk, where participants proudly exhibited their works — from abstract nature forms to symbolic representations of recycling and rebirth. 🌱✨
♻️ Plastic Transformation: From Waste to Wonder
In the next session, the focus shifted to one of the world’s biggest environmental challenges — plastic pollution. Participants explored how plastic waste could be repurposed into artistic installations and functional designs, giving a new life to discarded materials.
Using bottle caps, plastic bags, and containers, they created colorful mosaics, sculptures, and mixed-media pieces. Each creation told a story — about marine pollution, consumer habits, and the power of human creativity to transform waste into awareness.
This workshop not only fostered artistic expression but also encouraged critical reflection on our daily plastic use and the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling. 🌊💡
🎨 Creating Together: Collaborative Art Workshop
After lunch, participants joined “Creating Together: A Collaborative Art Workshop,” which focused on teamwork, imagination, and communication. Through group drawing and concept design exercises, they experienced how individual artistic ideas could merge into shared creations, representing unity in diversity.
The session helped strengthen cross-cultural collaboration, showing that environmental action is most powerful when it’s collective. 🤝💚
🌍 Collaborative Art with Recycling Materials
Following the coffee break, the creativity reached its peak with “Collaborative Art with Recycling Materials.”Mixed-country teams worked together on large-scale artworks inspired by sustainability, recycling, and community. Using a variety of materials — including plastic, paper, cardboard, and natural textures — they created visually striking pieces symbolizing unity between people and nature.
The artworks were displayed together, forming a temporary exhibition space filled with color, meaning, and shared commitment to a greener future. 🎨🌿
💬 Inspiring Session by the Municipality of Volvi
To conclude the day, representatives from the Municipality of Volvi (Δήμος Βόλβης) presented their local recycling initiatives and sustainability projects, highlighting how the municipality promotes environmental awareness, waste management, and citizen participation.
Their contribution encouraged participants to think globally but act locally, inspiring them to bring similar green actions into their own communities. 🌎✨
We express our sincere gratitude to ΜΑΣ ΑΕΤΟΣ Άνω Σταυρού, the Municipality of Volvi, and Mrs. Ksenia Delaki for their continuous support and collaboration in making this initiative a success. 🌱