Last year, we had our “Lantern Made of
Recycled Materials Contest”, this year we were looking forward for another
Christmas Decoration Making Contest out of recycled materials. This is one of
the Environmental Enhancement activities/projects of our department. The
decision to push through with the contest came in a little bit late because of
budget issues. But it didn’t hinder us to create what we can make out of the
used/recycled materials we can find at home or in the office.
The recycled soft drink bottles didn’t bring
us to the final 4 entries last year, thus, this year we decided to make more
use of papers, magazines, calendars found at the office. But making the Christmas tree structure is
really one tough job. As much as we want to pay and have it made, we opted not,
and asked my husband’s help to make the tree structure out of the recycled
rolled paper tube (used to roll floor mats/linoleum), a broken plastic
hula-hoop, some wire insulators and wrap them with papers. Galvanized wires
were used to hold the layers in place. For, there is a height requirement of
5ft to 6ft, ours stands 5ft with an allowance of 1 foot for the star.