Are you looking for meaningful ways to teach the children on how to take care of our Earth? It’s never too early to teach the children about recycling and more. Here’s a list of going green activities for preschoolers.
1- Bird Feeders
Collect all the metal cans, cloth mesh, popsicle sticks or bottles around you! Group the children (so they can cooperate) to do the bird feeders. Bird feeders DIY are beautiful decorations that will help you to get a better landscape in your garden. This is a good way to get the birds to flock in your garden and one day… When you are going to teach about Birds in your classroom, you have the perfect place to take the children out from the classroom to explore more.
Not only you are teaching the children one way to reduce the waste but also you are teaching them to love animals by feeding them food! Beautiful school garden at low-cost, what is not to love here?
2- Mini Recycling Centre
Another way to teach your children how to save our planet is by designing a mini recycling center in your school. How? First, you will need a large dustbin, do not use boxes. Before teaching the children how to make a mini recycling center, hand them plastic bags and start to collect the rubbish around the school. You can go to the field if you want to. Spend ½ hour on this activity. Do not forget to distribute gloves! Always, always practice good hygiene.
After that, tell your children that there are 3 dustbins and each one is for different waste. Label the dustbins with the picture of glass, plastic, and papers. This way, the children will understand how to separate the rubbish. When they have learned about this, remind them every day to throw their rubbish in the right dustbin. Fun but simple, isn’t it?
3- Growing Turnip Kit
Planting activity is a must for going green activities! I bet you heard about save the Earth, plant a tree… So, here we are, all you need is the growing turnip kit. Get this complete set of planting kit. You do not even need to dig soil to do this or find suitable seeds for the children, everything is provided. Who does not love no-prep activity? This activity is fun because children will be very excited on the outcomes and will observe the plant every single day, observing skill improvement, CHECK on that!
Not only that, the children will also find out what are the basic needs of a plant which are sunlight, water and nutrients to grow healthily. To make this more science experiment in your classroom instead just a going green activity, prepare a table for the children to draw their observation every single day.
4- Growing Mini Cactus Kit
Do you know that cactus is just a really aggressive cucumber? Isn’t that cute? But, please remind your children, cactus is not edible. With this growing mini cactus kit, you do not need to worry the children’s fingers will be pricked by the sharp thorns around the cactus. Soak the cactus in water and wait for a few days! Well, you can always take it out at the end of the day, it will still bigger than before.
Why is this activity is one of the going green activities? Because we are teaching the children about plants and the importance of cactus in our planet. Cactus have so many benefits both to human and animals. Dig that information up and share with your children!
If you have a cactus, I will never desert you.
5- Wheatgrass Kit
Let’s plant more plants! With more greens everywhere, the quicker we can save our Earth. With this wheatgrass kit, Earth will be smiling like those cute smiley cups given in the kit. If you want to choose an adorable planting session with your children, this is it! Why wheatgrass? Do you know wheatgrass is an excellent source of many different minerals and vitamins such as iron, magnesium, vitamin A, C and E!
