Schedule

Upcycle Craft and Designs (UCD1) – Tuesday 4:00pm- 6:00pm & Friday 2:30pm-4:30pm

Introduction 

“Trash to Treasure and Turnover.” 

Participants will be exposed to tips and techniques to repurpose unwanted items and materials like tyres, wine bottles, wooden pallets, cement, old towels, used sheets and old jeans. This initiative will result in creative projects such as wine bottle lamps, ottomans, pet beds, stepping stones and garden planters. 

Additionally, participants will learn to create a concrete fountain, cement vase, a wine bottle gift bag and a shoulder bag from old jeans and a rolling beach cart from a used clothes basket. 

Participants are provided with opportunities to equip themselves with the knowledge, skills and competencies required to generate an income and become self-sustainable.

Justification

Upcycling is not recycling where a new item is created by destroying the original piece. Upcycling seek to creatively repurpose unused, unwanted,  old, or waste items  into useful, valuable, refashioned, practical and creative but high quality finished products 

It stimulates the participants’ thought processes to create something different from the original unused items thus aiding in relaxing and boosting one’s confidence. A social impact of upcycling is the eradication of pollution contributing to saving the environment and reducing our carbon footprint by repurposing discarded items (trash) into viable products. 

This course is designed to develop and provide participants with opportunities to equip them with the necessary tools necessary enabling them to develop marketable skills, become employable, and encourage entrepreneurial development and the use of best practices. 

On completion of this course, participants would have developed basic knowledge as to reuse and upcycle seemingly useless and unproductive discarded objects and materials in such a manner so as to repurpose it into a product of higher quality or purpose and value than the original in a social and environmental sense.

Objectives 

This course is intended to stimulate the participants’ creativity and open their imagination so as to:

• Understand what upcycling is and its relation to sustainable development.
• Assess different ways of creating products out of trash.
• Understand creative repurposing for domsetic saving and personal profit.  
• Appreciate how upcycling can contribute to address local community issues.
• Identify different upcycling business models to start up an upcycling company from your hobby 

Entry Requirements  

Individuals interested in participating must be fifteen (15) years and over and have the following:

1. Two valid forms of picture Identification (Identification Card / Passport).
2. Minor equipment like – a hammer, sharp knife, drill, jigsaw, glue gun and sewing machine.
3. A digital device and internet access for virtual learning.

 Course Structure 

Course Codes	Course Titles
Level I	Upcycle Craft and Designs
UCD1

Course Modules

• Module 1:  Introduction to Upcycle Craft and Design; Basic Health and Safety – Tools and Materials
• Module 2:  Demonstration 1- Faux Stain Creations 1 – preparations, Stencilling and Creating; Picture Frame Art 

• Module 3:  Demonstration 2 – Wall Painting and Painted Wine Bottle Decoration  

• Module 4:  Review and Recap; Demonstration- 3 Pendant Light; Sun -Burst Mirror 

• Module 5:  Creating Candle Holder/Vase; Simple Wall Art Decor and Glam wall clock 

• Module 6:  Upcycle an old Ceramic / Glass Vase and Decorating Marble Champagne glass; Review and Recap

• Module 7:  Small Entrepreneur Development: –  How to Operate a Small Business; Final Evaluation/Assessment 

• Module 8: Creating Decorative Lantern and Flower glass/glass bowl; Cardboard Vase: Review and Recap

• Module 9:  Textured vase Canvas painting String ball 
• Module 10: Final Evaluation   – Presentation of Portfolio/Videos

Course Cost

Tuition is free of charge, but trainees are required to provide their own training materials and equipment.

Assessment Structure  

Continuous assessment is learner-focused and reduces anxiety with respect to the finality of testing. A model of continuous in-course assessment is proposed for this course. Trainees will be assessed at different intervals over the duration of the course. This assessment method, therefore, enhances learning since trainees will be able to remediate weaknesses before each module ends.