Recycled Plastic Bag Rooster

Recycled plastic bags like feathers on a wire frame make up this cheeky rooster. It’s a fair trade rooster, better yet, handcrafted in the townships near Cape Town, South Africa.

Out of stock at the moment, too bad — though you can still pick up a dog, a pig, a zebra, or perhaps a flamingo — but still, totally inspirational…

See, now I’m thinking about the wreaths that my grandmother used to make out of coat hangers and those lightweight filmy plastic bags from dry cleaners. She bent the coat hanger into a circle, then tied on many strips of plastic cut from the old bags she’d stockpiled. (What can I say, it was a different decade…)

Anyway, surely, a crafty chick could manage to bend up a wire frame for a rooster?

Different lengths of strips would make the different thickness of body and feathers, and all the many different colours of shopping bags would make each bird figure into a one-of-a-kind work of art.

Water-proof, too, so you could set your recycled rooster out to decorate the patio and amuse the neighbours, though I doubt it would last for more than one season, the sun’s UV rays being what they are…

Still, summer’s all about fleeting pleasures, is it not?

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