Litter-less lunch boxes 'please help'

Kia ora fellow enviroschools

Our focus for this term in the 'Moana room' is 'litter-less lunch-boxes' and wondered if anybody has any good resources, activities or websites we could visit or things they have done for this. It is mainly working with our under 3 year olds but would appreciate any ideas, comments etc....
Ngā mihi
Lee ann

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.

Learning about healthy soil

At Opunake kindy our enviro school focus this term is learning about Taepu Hauora (healthy soil). As kaitiaki of our whenua we are teaching and providing our tamariki with hands-on experiences that will support their learning and understanding of healthy soil.

 We are adding compost to our new vegetable garden to make our soil healthy by giving it the nutrients it needs to produce kai.

Then when our vegetables are planted we add worm juice to help our plants grow big and strong so we can eat them for afternoon tea or share with our whānau and community.

My fellow bloggers!!

Today I had the pleasure of working with these lovely ladies learning how to blog! Great way to learn and meet other enviroschool facilitators. I have also learnt how to add photos, Yay! L-R, Tammy, Marlene, Alayne, Lauree, Lee ann and Pare.

Welcome to Opunake Communities Kindergarten

Welcome to Opunake Communities Kindergarten.  This centre has an amazing outdoor environment and won a 2014 Taranaki Regional Council Environmental Award for increasing environmental awareness and understanding.  We look forward to hearing more about the great things you are doing.