UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 9, 2016. Special workshops on how to make environmentally friendly New Year’s trees will be held at schools in Yekaterinburg’s Akademichesky District this week, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports.

Kids will learn how to make a tree out of paper, rags, coffee beans, clothes pins, cocktail straws, lace, and all sorts of buttons, beads, pebbles, and flowers. Some of the trees will be made from plastic, grocery plastic bags, and glass. Twenty ‘objets d’art’ of different shapes and sizes are expected to come out as a result.

‘The year 2017 is Russia’s official Year of the Environment, so this idea of recycling efforts is particularly relevant. According to the workshop developers, theirs is a socially important project that calls for keeping the fir trees intact and for creating one’s own beautiful tree with one’s own hands. This is a globally popular trend: last year, for example, an architectural group had special Christmas trees made of firewood and wooden sledges installed in London, Manchester, and Budapest,’ the press service says.

The workshop for the Ural kids will be conducted by designers and artists who will tell the children about contemporary art and show how everyday objects can be turned into museum exhibits. The workshops will be held on December 7-9.