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Earth Day Blog Hop- Recycle!

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Earth Day is just around the corner! 
I'm super excited to be participating in this wonderful collaborative effort 
on Earth Day books and activities today! Please make sure to hop on over and
check out all of the great books and activities being shared!

The book I am choosing to share is called, Why Should I Recycle?
This book is a wonderful way to get children thinking about social responsibility 
through  reusing and recycling! The book is a little long, 
but with creative reading and storytelling, 
you can shorten the story for younger listeners :).

We recycle A LOT! 
Today, I'm also recycling posts... 
Here are a few of our favorite activities where we 
"reused" "recycled" or "upcycled" 

We love to recycle our own paper. 
We have a wonderful multi-day non-electric process for recycling our paper. 
It is a great process to engage the children in. 

We have re-purposed laundry detergent bottles into butterflies for our rock garden!

I made a bunch of butterflies and flowers out of aluminum cans too!

We recycled old magazine ads into wallpaper! 

We recycle our old marker caps into all kinds of things 
like fairy bridges, puppets and necklaces!

We recycle our dried out markers into all kinds of things! 
The insides can be used to make homemade liquid watercolors!
(This is by far our most popular recycling idea! It's gone viral since 
I originally posted about it in August of 2010)

We made old fashioned tin punch ornaments by recycling old juice can lids.

We have recycled all kinds of containers to use on our sand and water wall.

Our mud pie kitchen is filled with items we have re-purposed!

And, our music area is made completely from re-used/re-purposed materials!

I could go on and on and on.....

We re-purpose A LOT! If you are interested in more, feel free to check the archives!



There are a lot of  Earth Day books along with fantastic ideas being shared by some other bloggers today! Stop by and bookmark or even go ahead and pin them all :).

  Teach Preschool : Child Central Station : Living Montessori Now : Aunt Annie's Childcare : The SEEDS Network : Flights of Whimsy : Pre-K Pages : Kreative Resources : I'm a teacher, get me OUTSIDE here! : Share & Remember : Music Sparks : little illuminations : Greening Sam and Avery : Putti Prapancha : Early Play : 52 Days to Explore : Little Running Teacher : Look at My Happy Rainbow : Rainbows within Reach

Do you have a great Earth Day book or activity to share? We'd love to hear about it! Leave a comment or link up below!

Comments

Marnie @ Carrots are Orange said…
Wow, what an awesome list of activities. I love the idea of recycling markers. We try to keep track or caps and replace them but you know how it goes. Thanks for the inspiration!
April 8, 2012 at 6:38 PM
ShareandRemember said…
I love all the ways you repurpose at your center! You outdoor cooking area is awesome!
April 8, 2012 at 9:43 PM
Nic. said…
Wow! I'm loving all your garden ideas. I have a mudpie kitchen happening already but I'm so stealing the music idea. Awesome stuff! Thanks heaps for putting it out there.
April 8, 2012 at 10:33 PM
Roopa said…
Love all your ideas for recycling things!! And your music area is awesome:))
April 10, 2012 at 10:49 AM
Unknown said…
I need to remember your marker tip. JDaniel loses maker caps all the time.
April 11, 2012 at 7:17 PM
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