What better way to teach children about the World around them and how to preserve and protect it than by joining in with Earth Day (Sunday April 22nd 2012).
The first picture below, is of a tree in our backgarden. You cannot really tell from this picture but the tree has died. But it doesn’t mean it is useless because as you can see life still goes on because of it – leaves grow around it and it provides a home for many other forms of life.
The second picture is of the woodlice who feed off our waste – showing just because we no longer want it does not mean it has no use any more. This is the inside of our compost bin – a very exciting place and it will be much easier to find woodlice when we come to chamber experiments.
You may remember that whilst teaching my son the alphabet we planted some carrots – this is how they are getting on.
Then we decided to reuse some old plastic food pots that we had washed up to collect some painting instruments (my 4 year old giggled every time I called them this). I told them which leaves were okay to pick from our backgarden (“weeds”) and which weren’t. Dandelions proved the most popular as the heads made nice circles and the stems enable good straight lines. We used red, blue, green and yellow paint and had fun mixing the colours to see what happened. Even my 8 year old joined in and painted a traffic light.
You can pledge your act of Green here.
Ideas may include:
Ladies why not cut down on waste and save yourself some money and less hassle by buying a Mooncup – read about my experiences here.
Why not try and recycle more by having recycling bins around your house and reduce the size of your landfill bin so you don’t use it as much.
Start composting.
Oh you are so right and we are right with you! I love this post. We have recycling bins all over Coombe Mill and our latest properties have solar panels for heating the water and ground floor heat pumps which are ultra efficient. We should all do our bit and encourage our children to think of the generations to follow. A wonderful message. thank you for sharing on Country Kids. I love the early growth on those carrots too, I bet the kids are excited to see them grow!
That is brilliant it sounds a great place you have there. I shall be linking up to more places but again it’s time.
wonderful post – we have a yard and no room for compost. Instead we have a wormery. The worm juice goes in our pots and on our roses. I give it away to friends with allotments and often get veggies in return.
Oh that is brilliant. We have had compost for years and this is the first time we have attempted to use it. Thanks for the lovely comment.
I’m not good with plants. But my mum is and she learns all that she knows to my son.
Very interesting pinkoddy! It is good to teach children these things from early. There is really a lot we can do to preserve the earth.
Great post,Its good to teach them young and they always remember :)thanks for linking up with us at Creative Mondays 🙂
How great to be paying attention to the world around you and getting your kids involved. We love composting here and recycling – nothing like teaching these values with hands on fun!
Thanks for sharing on Happy Family Times
We do our best to recycle, looking forward to seeing the produce grow xxx
I totally agree – cutting down on waste and recycling is sooo important! And very big on my agenda – I also think it is important to teach our children about it.
Thanks for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!
Maggy & Alissa