How can you heat up food with two tin cans and a little hay or create a new carabiner from small plastic parts? Visitors were able to learn this and more on the afternoon of 25 November 2023 together with the team from #3000Garagen, a main project of Chemnitz 2025, and the scouts.
In cooperation with the "King Scouts" of the Luthergemeinde Chemnitz, the #3000Garagen project team organised a workshop afternoon in the garage courtyard and on the grounds of the scouts at Altenhainer Straße 26.
The skills and knowledge from garages are centred around repair, recycling, upcycling and sustainability. Following these principles, children, young people and interested adults were able to make a hobo stove out of cans or tie knots for every situation in life under the guidance of the King Scouts scouts. Johannplasto also showed how packaging plastic can be recycled and turned into practical carabiners or rulers. In the Sippenhaus, you could visit a small scout exhibition or make bread on a stick at the campfire with musical accompaniment. In addition, tea, cakes and barbecues were enjoyed by young and old alike. Despite the snow and rain, around 50 visitors came along, all of whom learnt a lot that afternoon.
