Kids at a nursery in Fulham have created 42-metre scarf featuring artwork from across the world.

The talented youngsters from Bayonne Nursery and Children’s Centre in Paynes Walk produced the monster from unwanted woolly jumpers and discarded yarn

It is the result of its Don’t Throw, Make Something New campaign, which launched in September 2013, and saw classes set-up to provide an opportunity to anyone to come and learn the basic skills in crocheting, knitting and sewing.

It encouraged participation from both local and global communities. As a result, the scarf not only has contributions from the children and their parents, but community groups based at supported housing scheme Wentworth Court, charities Age Concern and Bishop Creighton House, and children who attended international partner schools located in Bangladesh, Kenya, Poland and Turkey.

Iwona Macalka came up with the idea of the giant scarf
Iwona Macalka came up with the idea of the giant scarf

The scarf was finished in July 2014 and at that time was about 40 metres long. However, during the next academic years some additional items were donated from the parents, adding an extra two metres to the scarf.

It also has about 30 items from countries from the continents of Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, South and North America.

Early years educator Iwona Macalka, who has previously helped impoverished communities in Bangladesh, came up with the idea. She said: “I wanted to combine something creative with the importance of reusing and recycling.

“Plus knitting is a dying art so I thought it would be good to introduce that to the children and parents. I just thought it’d be a few metres – I never expected it would get so big.

“The project developed by itself with parents taking ownership, bringing in knitted items from their country of origin. It was the global and local community coming together.”

The scarf is on display at the Hammersmith Town Hall until March 29.