The Greenest of All!
Posted by Diane Badden on 21 Apr 2010 | Posted in: Holiday and Seasonal, Teachers and Teaching
I’m giving a shout-out to teachers for being green! After all, who’s been recycling, reusing, and reducing for years? Teachers have! Tomorrow’s Earth Day, so I say let’s begin our celebration today. Let’s see how many suggestions we can list for reusing. Twenty-five? Fifty? Maybe even 100! Here are a couple ideas to get us started.
- Turn a four-pocket cardboard beverage holder into a picnic caddy for plastic knives, forks, spoons, and straws! Or use the holder as a paint caddy for four plastic cups and four colors of paint!
- Reuse water from pet bowls, water glasses, and so on to water plants.
Now it’s your turn! And, by the way, if you’re in need of a last-minute Earth Day activity, we’ve got you covered. Check out “Get Free Stuff!” at TheMailbox.com—register now and get instant access to timely resources for Earth Day, spring, and much more!
Think green!
Diane
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We reuse whatever we can in our classroom. I’ve started collecting old yogurt and cottage cheese containers from parents to store extra math manipulatives in. We even reuse tissue boxes to make into games and storage for game cards.
One of my favorite recycle items is to use the plastic rectangular baby food containers as glue containers. There is a limited amount that can spill and I teach my preschoolers to use a small paint brush to brush on the glue and not waste it. Also these plastic containers are easy to clean and refill!
I reuse all kinds of things! I reuse trays from microwave meals for paint trays, yogurt cups to hold small parts of art projects, baby food jars for snow globes, the tops from plastic bottles for counters/manipulatives for the students, and even film canisters to use as handles on many things.
Of course, I recycle everything I can as well. Our recycle center has a give and take section and I love to check it out for items that I can bring into my classroom for the students. It’s an economical way to get “new supplies.”
Diane, One of my most favorite reusing ideas is cutting cereal boxes to make magazine caddies. I love to cover the boxes with pretty paper and store my Teacher’s Helper and Mailbox magazines in them. Happy Earth Day!!
I’ve seen many teachers reuse margarine containers to hold water for watercolor paints. I think that’s a great idea!