Recycle It

Terence Ong

A simple and easy way to teach a child how to sort and recycle plastic cans and paper.

Materials Needed:

• 3 medium size cardboard boxes (no lid).
• 3 different animal stickers (or) pictures (e.g. lion, giraffe, hippo).
• 1 can
• 1 piece of scrap paper
• 1 plastic cup

What to do:

• This game will help your child to learn to sort and recycle at a young age.
• Place the cardboard box where your child can reach them.
• Put stickers or pictures of your child’s favourite animals on the front of each of the boxes.
• Tell the child that we have to keep the characters fed.
• The lion like cans, the giraffe likes paper and the hippo likes plastic.
• To reinforce this also next to each of the animal stickers/picture,stick the item to be fed to each of the animals. For e.g stick a piece of paper next to the giraffe etc.
• Whenever there is an empty can, paper or plastic to be recycled, let your child place it in the corresponding box.
• This will teach your child to recycle and sort.

Hints and Tips:

• Instead of using animals on each of the cardboard boxes you can use your child’s favourite Disney characters (or) even your child’s favourite colours.
• When the recycling get full, show your child which recycling bin you use to empty out the boxes
• Paint each of the boxes to make it more appealing or cover with re-used wrapping paper.
• Encourage others to use the same recycling system within the household.