Life-size Game Teaches Kindergarten Students Recycling

The non-traditional tokens were bags of recyclable materials.

Art teacher Kecia Garcia, who is also head of the school’s recycling program, created a game similar to Monopoly called Recycle Rally to celebrate its completion of the PepsiCo Recycle Rally.

The life-size board game, created with paint and chalk that wrapped around the school’s courtyard, had students starting on “GO” with the opportunities to draw chance and treasure box cards.

The PepsiCo Recycle Rally is a free nationwide program that directly benefits K-12 schools and students by providing valuable incentives and resources to help make recycling easy, fun and rewarding.

Read more about it here.

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R is for Rocket

One of my Kindergarten teacher friends did this in her classroom. Since they're learning the letter R, their homework was to create a rocket using items around the house. Great activity, and the results were super!

It's a Tire-asaurus!

Some time ago, I blogged about how to put old tires to good use for the benefit of children. How cute would this be in a neighborhood park, or even on a school playground?

Recycling Old Tires

I found these pics of what people had done with old automobile tires, to benefit children's and school playground, and I just had to share! They're ingenious!

 

A DIY Backyard Water Wall

Make your own easy water wall from plastic bottles. Found at Tinkerlab.

Another QEC Fund Raiser

Have your students bring in their empty drink pouches.  Any brand will do.  Your school gets paid $.02 per pouch, which are made into purses and many other items.

To get more information and to sign up your own school, go to TerraCycle.

(QEC = Quick, Easy, and Cheap)