How can you upcycle food waste into a "Tic Tac Toe" game?

UpSoil - experimentation for children

Julika Klemens
Jeanine Schneider

A way for children to learn how to create their own material and use it to create their own sustainable game. In this way, children learn to create something new from leftover food and experience the process of making something themselves.

Inside this kit you will find: Instructions for the game “Tic Tac Toe”, a recipe and some ingredients.

For your own materials just add soil, water and food leftovers. With the help of food leftovers like ground peanut shells or ground eggshells, you mix the mixture for the game. For the mold, you can either use the packaging as a cookie cutter or come up with your own idea. Food leftovers such as beetroot, ground mandarin peel or ground lemon peel can be used to create different colors for the game figures.

The game is suitable for ages 4 and up. It`s made from natural materials and is completely compostable.

A project made in the course

Findings On Soil

Life on earth depends on healthy soils. As part of hands-on materials education, young Eco-Social Design students at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano explored soil as a do-it-yourself material for art, design and architecture. Through practical exercises and guest workshops we examined its properties, everyday uses, and future possiblities. Collaborating with the BITZ unibz fablab, a community workshop for hobbyists, researchers and students based in Bolzano, we developed experimental kits to (re)connect and engage people with soil.
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