Bees wax wraps

Bee's Wax Wraps

This year on Lamb and Calf Day we needed to make some money for our Enviro Schools so we were thinking of what we could do to raise money.  Mrs Wilkinson thought that we could make some bee's wax wraps. There were a few people at school who had some bee's wax so we were lucky to get them so we didn't have to buy any. Ms Ryder kindly gave us some fabric so we didn't have to buy anything. 

We will be selling them for $5 on October 25. We  are hoping to get some profit off so we can put in our Enviro School account. 

Plastic Free July

         Beeswax wraps                                                                  

 To encourage and support our whānau in the Moana room (infant and toddlers area) we (kaiako and tamariki) made beeswax wraps to hand out to our whānau. We made these for our whānau with the hope they would use as an alternative to glad wrap. First we had to grate the wax into pellets, then we melted the wax and added our cotton material. When we had fully coated our material we then hung our wraps to dry:)
Beau is enjoying the hands-on experience and he is being very careful when using the grater. Tino pai Beau!

We have done this process with different groups of tamariki throughout the week so everyone got to experience and participate in learning of ways to reduce our plastic use, however small that may be.