The bottle castle

Like sooo many great ideas this came from Kindergarten. Miropiko Kindergarten were making an Igloo from milk bottle's, we were leaving just as they were collecting them, hundreds of them!

Love their Igloo

We here in Catania have water with wee stones and a shady appearance, so bottled water was always on the cards. And since the 1.5 & 2 litre bottles were relatively cheap, there was always going to be plenty of spare empties. 

After Milan & Brig came up with the idea to do something with them .. a massive castle, we then let the San Gregorio team in on the idea. They were awesome!!! We'd go around with massive blue IKEA bags that they would fill with their bottles and the kids would thank them and make payment with their artwork pieces .... that the guys actually kept. When we go again they'd be displayed on fridges & walls, that's major to the kids.

Ciao Paewais - Corban, Alana and Pharus -
 this is late off to Posteitalia again x

 

Cleaning

Planning

It was a team event cleaning, planning, constructing. Most days we did something related to their project which was perfect over the short Sicilian winter.

All it took was supermarket cardboard as the floor, a hot glue gun – to secure the bottom bottles down and 5 rolls of clear packing tape to secure the walls of bottles together. In total we used around 530 bottles.  

Another cool bottle creation we did courtesy of Aunty Vie - was bottle jelly fish.

http://bhoomplay.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/diy_jellyfish_eng/

Our little principessa asked her Papa (she has better odds with him) for an entrance door, a window and that it be big enough for the whole family.

Setting up for a sleep over

On Carlos's first turn in the castle he went inside to the window and asked whether Brig would like a hamburger or cheeseburger – Classic Carlitos.

It then came time to bring it down, they were sad for a brief moment though with Papa's help the castle transformed into a tackle bag. The recycling of the bottles, was vital for Milan. She constantly remind's us how we have to look after nature. In the likely future my darling we look forward to you looking after us x