Under the motto “Time to do!”, the OWL crafts family is celebrating “Crafts Day 2024” on August 18th (11 a.m. to 6 p.m.) at the 22nd Wackelpeter children’s and cultural festival in the Ravensberger Spinnerei in Bielefeld. Over 22,000 companies and 215,000 employees are firmly rooted in the OWL region and take care of what is needed locally. They help, get stuck in and make a difference. Many of them also volunteer. At Wackelpeter, they show off many craft activities that focus on “doing”. At the local family construction site, children of preschool and primary school age are invited to carry out craft tasks such as roofing, bricklaying or painting. Skill is required when climbing boxes on the crane. The children can also playfully carry out woodwork, road construction activities including driving excavators and guided tasks in the areas of electrical engineering and plumbing, heating and air conditioning technology together with trainers and trainees on the craft course. Once the work is done, the young craftsmen and women receive a children’s journeyman’s certificate.
The family construction site is a joint project of the OWL Chamber of Crafts, the Gütersloh-Bielefeld District Craftsmen’s Association, the Brackwede Crafts Training Center, the Bielefeld Painting Training Center, the Bielefeld Electrical Engineering and Sanitary and Heating Technology Guilds, the Bielefeld companies Jens W. Kipp Tiefbau GmbH, ZEP-Team and Barczewski GmbH. The craft influencer and trained plant mechanic Sandra Hunke from the Lippe district will also be there. As a model and craftswoman, she is a well-known figure in the German craft industry with over 200,000 Instagram followers. With short readings from her children’s book “Bella Baumädchen”, the craftswoman wants to inspire young people to take up crafts and show that girls belong in crafts just as much as boys. Participation in the children’s cultural festival is free of charge and possible without registration.
