What's new
- School holiday workshops July 2008
- Mini Mondays - August/September pre-schoolers workshop program
- Themed mail order barrels for schools and kindies now available
- New stock in the warehouse
- New activity sheets for class excursions to Reverse Garbage
- Electronic newsletter for June
School holiday workshops July 2008 program
Our school holiday program has begun and if you're quick there are still a couple of places available. Please phone us on 3844 5626 or email info@reversegarbage.com.au.
All children's workshops are $20 per class and include materials. They are open to children aged 6 to 12 years. Maximum 10 participants per workshop. To secure a place, workshops must be paid in full upon booking. Fees are non-refundable.
Please see Education for full program outline.
Mini Mondays - August/ September pre-schoolers workshop program
Reverse Garbage is offering parents and children 3 to 5 years of age a weekly program of fun and creativity in our workshops space here in West End. Each week we will run the class twice from 10am to 10:45am and 11:30am to 12:15pm. The program is designed for both parent and child participation, with a focus on fun and enviromentally-friendly activities.
When the workshop is finished you can relax across the street with the other children and parents at West End Park Cafe. They have provided coffee and cake vouchers for $5.50 to be used on workshop days only.
There is a maximum of six children and six adults per activity. Workshops need to be paid in full upon booking to secure a place. The cost is $15 per child.
Please see Education for the full program outline.
Themed mail order barrels for schools and kindies
Introducing our exciting themed barrels, a new addition to our regular mixed material mail order service. Each themed barrel has all the materials required for a particular art project. Suggestion sheets are also included.
The themes are as follows:
- sci-fi
- under the sea
- treasure boxes
- junk jewellery
- weaving
- paper sculpture
- trains, planes and automobiles
- wearable arts.
For prices, dimensions and other information, please go to our mail orders section.
New in the warehouse
The materials on sale at Reverse Garbage change every day as a new truckload of goodies arrive. Here's what's new:
- Grills - Top half of truck grill, 1m x 20cm - plastic with a chrome effect. $2.50 each.
- Foam bricks - 28cm x 23cm and 10cm deepT.hese foam bricks would make a charming play cottage as long as the big bad wolf doesn't come along! 50c each.
- Tarps - ex-billboard banners made from heavy duty vinyl with advertising on one side. Variety of uses, one resourceful customer bought them to line the lounge room for her home birth this week. We send you our best wishes! $15 each.
New workshops for home schoolers
Reverse Garbage has decided to trial workshops for home schoolers in our workshop space on site. They will be held on the last Tuesday of the month starting on 27th May 2008.
See education section for further details and workshop program.
New activity sheets for class excursions to Reverse Garbage
We now provide activity sheets on our website for teachers to use with their classes during excursions to the Reverse Garbage warehouse. There are separate sheets for years 1 - 3 and years 4 - 7. Please go to the education section to download the activity sheets.
Electronic newsletter
If you would like to receive a monthly update about what's new in stock at Reverse Garbage, email us on info@reversegarbage.com.au and type the word "subscribe" in the message. Our email newsletter, Not J*nk Mail, will keep you up-to-date with what's new in the warehouse.
If you would like to view the last edition of Not J*nk Mail, please click here.
New arts workshop van
We’re very excited to let you know that Reverse Garbage now has a second brand-spanking-new vehicle - who would ever have thought? Our new van was proudly funded by the Queensland Government's Gambling Community Benefit Fund, who provided $22,732 towards the purchase our new Ford Transit van.
Our workshop facilitators will be making use of our new vehicle to travel to school and festival workshops. In between times, we will use the van for local deliveries, collections and to post off barrels of exciting materials to rural schools and kindies.