Recycled Jewelry Boxes
Teaching Children Sustainability And Environmental Care
Sustainability is a real issue these days, we now understand our obligation to the generations to come. Our children AND their children AND their children’s children deserve the same beautiful planet we have to enjoy. So how do we teach them environmental stewardship?
Enjoy Crafts Projects Together to Teach The Value of Recycled Items
One simple way to teach children about environmental care is by undertaking craft projects together. Kids learn much better through involvement, especially with Mom or Dad.
Teach them separation of recyclables by allowing them to label your recycling buckets or bins with their own creative signs for plastics, paper or organics for the compost bin.
Once you’ve assembing a good range of materials you can begin recycling paper into paper mache objects, greeting cards, paper flowers or jewellery or anything else that comes to mind. Things like thrown-out coffee cans can be decorated with recycled paper to create “customized” pencil holders that your kids will surely love. While there are hundreds of possibilities the best idea is to allow your kids to come up with their own ideas for maximum involvement and to stimulate their creativity.
Further show your kids just how garbage can become treasure by bringing them to a thrift store or recycling center. That way they can see how donations like old toys, clothing and shoes can be made into something usable for others.
Compost to Teach Environmental Awareness
Making compost can be a fun way to teach children about the “unseen” world of micro-organisms and the contribution they make to a healthy planet. Creating a heightened awareness of the invisible world of microscopic organisms helps kids see that our actions have real consequences in the natural world that we can’t at first see.
Get your kids to assist with routine emptying of the kitchen compost crock into the outside composter and they’ll be able to observe the shrinking and changes that take place as the microbes do their work. Even better, if you use a worm farm composter, children can observe the worms and begin to understand the role of worms and other small creatures in maintaining healthy soil. No matter what composting system you use, as soon as you have achieved a supply of finished material, spread it around your plants so children can observe the results of their labor.
Online Games and Websites For Kids
Discovering ways to live more sustainably and become stewards of this wonderful planet doesn’t have to be dull…. Children all enjoy interractive games with their colors and sounds and rapidly learn whilst playing. Online, you’ll find dozens of interractive game sites and resources to teach sustainability and environmental awareness for any age group. Here are just a few popular game and resource sites that are a real hit with children:
OlliesWorld.com – Australian sustainability website for kids and teachers.
Ecokids.ca – A Canadian award winning site with games for children and resources for teachers.
Eekoworld see: pbskids.org/eekoworld/ – A great website that really grabs kid’s attention.
Ecokids.co.nz – A great Kiwi site for kids
Webrangers.us – an online version of the National Park Service Junior Ranger Program
Earthmatters4kids.org – excellent environmental education site with high quality teacher’s resources.
Clearly there are dozens of creative ways to teach kids how to appreciate the natural environment and live more sustainably.. But don’t forget, that as a parent our actions speak much louder than words: we must lead by example.
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Ascend #10 Standard Window Envelopes, 30% Recycled, Peel-N-Seal, Security , 100 / box Peel-off strip keeps adhesive free from dust for longer shelf life. Made from recycled paper stock…. |
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Eco Snoopers / Trinket Box with Accessories & Lock, Pink $13.29 This fun trinket box featuring the Eco Snoopers bunch will keep treasures and trinkets safe and sound with the included lock. The treasure collection starts with the included accessories: a memo pad, pen, colored pencils, sheet of stickers and fun 3-D stickers, too! Eco Snoopers are colorful and quirkly eco-friendly characters designed to encourage children toward environmentally friendly initativ… |
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Eco Snoopers / Heart-shaped Musical Jewelry Box, Pink $13.79 The heart-shaped musical jewlery box has been a classic gift for girls for generations. Keep the tradition alive with a modern twist with this beautiful rendition featuring a lid adorned with the quirky Eco Snoopers characters and made with recycled content. Open the box to find a surprise pop-up heart that spins to beautiful music when the music box is wound. No girl should miss out on this class… |
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Cottage Garden Peace Silent Night Wooden Music Box $15.99 Cottage Garden Collections Music Box, When our elegant music boxes are opened, a glass enclosure allows customers to see the musical movement as it plays. We use only Sankyo brand movements, the highest quality available. So you will always hear clear, consistent melodies. Customers can easily replace the artwork with a personal 4″ x 6″ photo. Plays Song- Silent Night…. |
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The Big-Ass Book of Crafts 2 $19.99 Searching for crafty inspiration? Eager to try some new techniques? Need some more junk for your trunk? Well, look no further! In this cheeky sequel, Mark Montano picks up where his wildly popular The Big-Ass Book of Crafts left off, with even more spectacular—and easy-to-make—projects sure to satisfy crafters of all skill levels. Turn colorful ribbons into a show-stopping scarf . . … |
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