Our Children and the Environment

Let’s face it. It’s up to us to educate our children to the importance of taking care of our environment. They are the ones who will be living in it much longer than we will. I read a great article on cnn.com today on getting our children involved.

It’s titled, “10 ways to get kids environmentally involved.” It’s an excerpt from Parenting.com. You’ll find it a great read with some wonderful ideas on how to get your kids excited about our responsibility to take care of our surroundings. You’ll find a link there as well to get your child enrolled in their “Go Green” contest. Enjoy the read and have fun getting the kids to go green!

1. Be artful. Stock your child’s coloring table with used printer paper and empty cereal boxes. He can draw on the unprinted sides of the paper, and the insides of cereal boxes are great for finger painting. Bonus points for turning his artwork into wrapping paper.

 

Seeing where the food comes from helps kids grasp why it’s important to care for the earth.

2. Collect runoff. Have your preschooler place watering cans or buckets under the downspouts of your house. After a storm, she’ll be thrilled to see that her cans are full, and she can use the rainwater to give house plants a drink.

3. Jump on it. “I lay milk jugs, aluminum cans, and boxes on the floor and let my son stomp on them to make them flat for recycling,” says Dalia Stein of Columbus, Ohio. “He fulfills his little-boy need to destroy things while doing something nice for the environment.”

Check out the rest of the article here at CNN.com