Upcycling workshop at Krka National Park

Upcycling workshop at Krka National Park
Join us at one of our workshops, learn some new skills and make handicrafts to help the Šibenske Šape association.

In October and November, the Public Institute of Krka National Park will be organising a series of educational creative workshops aimed at raising awareness of better ways to recycle. The workshops will be held at the ethno-village at Skradinski buk and Roški slap. The creative staff at Krka National Park will show you how to make pompoms, placemats, little sheep and paper bags from old, usable materials. All items made will be donated to the association Šibenske šape which cares for abandoned and lost four-legged friends in the city. The association regularly organises information stands where they collect donations, and in turn give a symbolic gift. Soon, the handicrafts from the Krka will be among these gifts. The schedule for the workshops at Krka National Park is regularly updated and published on the Facebook and Instagram sites of Krka National Park. The October workshops will be held according to the following schedule:

• 18 & 29 Oct (12 – 3 pm), Skradinski buk, making pompoms
• 19 & 28 Oct (12 – 3 pm), Skradinski buk, making little sheep from old cardboard and wool
• 20 & 30 Oct (12 – 3 pm), Skradinski buk, making placemats from old shirts
• 23 & 27 Oct (12 – 3 pm), Roški slap, making bags out of old paper
• 24 & 25 Oct (12 – 3 pm), Skradinski buk, making bags out of old paper

By reviving long forgotten old crafts, restoring ethnographic monuments and holding educational workshops, the Public Institute of Krka National Park is aiming to protect the characteristics of our identity from oblivion in this modern way of life, and to breathe new life into old objects, most of all for the generations to come. The various techniques and ways of decorating objects through creative reuse is known as upcycling. This is an even more radical and greener version of recycling, that does not require destruction and the pointless consumption of energy and resources, but involves giving an old and “unneeded” object new purpose, with minimal changes, that can even be done at home. The Public Institute of Krka National Park is continuing its cooperation with the Ozana Association. This spring, valuable cooperation was established through the crocheting of gloves for Alzheimer patients to raise the level of social awareness. Park employees at the ethno-village this fall are also knitting and crocheting squares 20 x 20 cm in size that the association is sewing together to make blankets for the homeless in a campaign called Let’s knit together. We would like to invite all those interested to join in this campaign and to submit their knitted squares to the administration or branch offices of the Public Institute of Krka National Park, so that all the squares can be submitted to the Ozana Association in December.