This is a Comenius Project Blog. The Countries involved in it are: Cyprus, Norway, Romenia and Portugal.
Its subject is easy to guess, it is the environment.
06/12/2010
Christmas Challenge
It's Christmas Time! Time to give... Let's think of green presents to offer this Christmas.
Green Presents? You might ask. Yes, those which are friendly to our dear planet, the Earth.
So, do your research and share with us the green presents you've found.
This is a gift environmentally friendly and can be customized! The soaps are made from natural ingredients such as olive, coconut, palm oil or cereals and fortified with essential oils.
Crafts soaps have a softer texture and are perfect for sensitive skins due to its content naturally rich in natural oils. These don't dry the skin, by contrast, leave it soft and nourished.
Creams ... especially the girls love them and spend huge money on them!
Here are a lot of easy solutions to offer for Christmas:
Sugar Scrub To make the scrub mix a tablespoon of granulated sugar with honey. Then wipe the face with light circular motion and remove with plenty.
This sugar scrub and honey is ideal for skin with too many zits, but not recommended for sensitive, because it may cause redness.
Oat Scrub Mix two tablespoons of oatmeal with two of honey. Pass across the face and make a circular motion. Then remove the scrub with water.
The exfoliating oatmeal is softer and therefore is suitable for sensitive skins. Additionally, oats promotes skin nourishment.
After the exfoliation or daily care, it is recommended to use a moisturizer with sunscreen. As men's skin is more oily, the ideal is to opt for moisturizing gel.
Provide the person concerned, recommending that:
- Make a scrub once a week with light circular movements. - Wash your face with soap, rub a tonic and use moisturizer with sunscreen every day. This prevents drying of skin and makes shaving.
in my opinion, for the Christmas or anytime of the year, instead of going to the mall to buy a present to offer, we can do it at home and reuse wrapping the paper...
We Can make custom postcards or identification cards for gifts, using magazine paper and putting a favorite essence of the person that we offer.
It would be not only a postcard or a simple ID card gift, but a ticket that carries sensations. We can also put soft or rough texture, so that the sight and smell, join them in tact.
The Christmas season is characterized by giving and receiving. There is nothing more tender than a warm biscuits. A little gift for the whole family, are a wonderful biscuits sweets.
Here's a recipe for a well-known book, entitled: " Os sabores de Natal da Popota ":
For 8 people you need:
[150 g] of powdered sugar; [250 g] butter; [300 g] flour; [8] cooked yolks; [2 g] salt; [200 g] 60% of the chocolate melted.
Preparation:
1. Hit the sugar with the butter and salt. 2. Join the cooked yolks however that dispenses powder with the help of a sieve or strainer and mix with flour. 3. Let stand in a fresh place for one hour. 4. Stretch out with a rolling pin on the table and sprinkle with flour. 5. Cut the mass with various forms. 6. Leads to the oven for 20 minutes at 160 º C. 7. Once removed from oven, melted chocolate pass by one part of biscuits. 8. Place them on a parchment paper, to solidify.
We may also use the boxes for "Ferrero Rocher" to decorate and create fun effects with gouache, pen permanent or inks relief, to write simple and christmas sentences.
Hi, we can offer presentes using renewable energies, like tv commands .. I dont know if this exist, but its one idea. The advantage is that it requires no batteries. :)
If you are tierd of one thing, a football, an old toy,you can recycle that. Instead of put it in the trash you can send it to the children in Africa. They will accept that has a present.
This is a gift environmentally friendly and can be customized!
ReplyDeleteThe soaps are made from natural ingredients such as olive, coconut, palm oil or cereals and fortified with essential oils.
Here are the steps to make one of these:
http://www.sonholilas.com.br/2010/04/14/dicas-para-o-preparo-de-sabonete-artesanal/
Crafts soaps have a softer texture and are perfect for sensitive skins due to its content naturally rich in natural oils. These don't dry the skin, by contrast, leave it soft and nourished.
Try and feel the difference!
Creams ... especially the girls love them and spend huge money on them!
ReplyDeleteHere are a lot of easy solutions to offer for Christmas:
Sugar Scrub
To make the scrub mix a tablespoon of granulated sugar with honey. Then wipe the face with light circular motion and remove with plenty.
This sugar scrub and honey is ideal for skin with too many zits, but not recommended for sensitive, because it may cause redness.
Oat Scrub
Mix two tablespoons of oatmeal with two of honey. Pass across the face and make a circular motion. Then remove the scrub with water.
The exfoliating oatmeal is softer and therefore is suitable for sensitive skins. Additionally, oats promotes skin nourishment.
After the exfoliation or daily care, it is recommended to use a moisturizer with sunscreen. As men's skin is more oily, the ideal is to opt for moisturizing gel.
Provide the person concerned, recommending that:
- Make a scrub once a week with light circular movements.
- Wash your face with soap, rub a tonic and use moisturizer with sunscreen every day. This prevents drying of skin and makes shaving.
Easy, enjoyable and cheap ! :)
take the bags of clothes from last year to wrap the new gifts
ReplyDeleteWe can use magazines leafs to wrap our green presents !
ReplyDeleteIt's very cute and we are recycling :)
in my opinion, for the Christmas or anytime of the year, instead of going to the mall to buy a present to offer, we can do it at home and reuse wrapping the paper...
ReplyDeleteWe can use shopping bags,juice packs, magazine sheets or newspapers to make imaginative gift wrap.
ReplyDeleteWe can do our homemade candles !
ReplyDeleteThey are colourful, have a nice smell and we can customize for anyone =)
we can use shopping bags, juice packs, magazine sheets or even newspapers to make imaginative gift wraps.
ReplyDeletesolar lanterns is one in millions of alternatives!!! :D
ReplyDeleteBooks, diaries and calendars that have been produced using recycled paper. All of these are good choices.
ReplyDeleteWe can make a frame at home and offer to someone :D
ReplyDeleteWe Can make custom postcards or identification cards for gifts, using magazine paper and putting a favorite essence of the person that we offer.
ReplyDeleteIt would be not only a postcard or a simple ID card gift, but a ticket that carries sensations.
We can also put soft or rough texture, so that the sight and smell, join them in tact.
:)
A good iddea to offer it would be to make a sewing box with an old shoes box and old tissues to quilt the box.
ReplyDeleteHomemade Biscuits:
ReplyDeleteThe Christmas season is characterized by giving and receiving.
There is nothing more tender than a warm biscuits.
A little gift for the whole family, are a wonderful biscuits sweets.
Here's a recipe for a well-known book, entitled: " Os sabores de Natal da Popota ":
For 8 people you need:
[150 g] of powdered sugar;
[250 g] butter;
[300 g] flour;
[8] cooked yolks;
[2 g] salt;
[200 g] 60% of the chocolate melted.
Preparation:
1. Hit the sugar with the butter and salt.
2. Join the cooked yolks however that dispenses powder with the help of a sieve or strainer and mix with flour.
3. Let stand in a fresh place for one hour.
4. Stretch out with a rolling pin on the table and sprinkle with flour.
5. Cut the mass with various forms.
6. Leads to the oven for 20 minutes at 160 º C.
7. Once removed from oven, melted chocolate pass by one part of biscuits.
8. Place them on a parchment paper, to solidify.
For sure they will love it! :)
We may also use the boxes for "Ferrero Rocher" to decorate and create fun effects with gouache, pen permanent or inks relief, to write simple and christmas sentences.
ReplyDeleteOr with boxes like this:
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we can use as a template for our custom candles :)
Hi, we can offer presentes using renewable energies, like tv commands .. I dont know if this exist, but its one idea. The advantage is that it requires no batteries. :)
ReplyDeletethis is one on thousand exemples for green presents:
ReplyDelete-handmade decorated Pen Holder
;)
If you are tierd of one thing, a football, an old toy,you can recycle that. Instead of put it in the trash you can send it to the children in Africa.
ReplyDeleteThey will accept that has a present.
This Christmas, we can make cards from recycled materials (coffee capsules, magazines,...) to offer our family and friends! :)
ReplyDelete