Gift cards from... wood

We just have started new session and already have a lot of nice arts & craft made by Eco Kids! We welcome Stas, Megan and Cornelia in this session! Great to have such a nice bunch of kids! 

Bestseller of today was gift cards from wood. I had two kinds of them. Eco Kids made them for the teachers... there are not many days left to the end of the year. Some kids made the cards for mums, in Sweden Mother's Day was on Sunday, in Poland on Saturday. Wooden gift cards were not easy to paint, but the result - you have to see the photos at least!

Then we made some more gifts: earrings and brochures. As many patterns as many kids we had. Even rainbow one! I think both teachers and mums will love them! No doubts! 

Apart from arts & crafts Eco Kids had a lot of fun playing. Now we do all works outside and it's just great to paint, make arts & crafts, plant in the garden.

Next week we do not meet on Saturday, remember! We meet on Thursday, 7th and Saturday 9th of June!  

Last session school year 2011/2012

We start this Saturday and this is the program of the new session

• 3 Eco Kids workshops

ECOTHANKS  

26^th of May, Saturday  

making the special gifts for teachers and assistants for the end of the year and also friends: beautiful wooden “thank you” notes with the flowers on it, small garden with flowers from the bottle and different brooches, lovely earrings and others.

ECOINSTRUMENTS

  7^th of June, Thursday (the day free at school)

ecosketches on the grass,

making the instruments, play on them, writing ecosongs.

The special guest of the ecoworkshop – drum player, Magdalena Biernacka, who will play drums with the kids.

little theatre game

ECOSUMMER

  9^th of June, Saturday

making ecobags for summer, boats from the bottle, bookmarks for summer books, decorating the stones, etc.

• every time also outdoor games

• Saturdays two groups: 12.00 - 2 pm & 3 – 5 pm, Thursday 11 am – 2 pm 

• Healthy snack: fruits & vegies, water

• reserve the place, making payment till FRIDAY, 25^th of May

Save the Earth!

GREAT SATURDAY IS ECOSATURDAY! This Saturday the main project was "Save the Earth". Eco Kids were making the Earth. I gave them cardboard, the green and blue paint and helped a little bit with the shapes of continents. Then they wrote important messages and put them on Earth, for example: "This is the only planet to live. Save it", "Keep it clean. We need our Earth", "Take care of Mother Earth", etc. It was interesting to see kids working on it, thinking what they can say other people to help Earth. Later most of the kids were making the other planets. There were many ideas! I loved it! One was Moon, also Saturn, Mars, etc. Eco Kids also put on them messages, for example: "There is live on Mars. Save our planet".

The next thing we did with one of the groups were the silver rockets. Many kids have drawn the passengers in them. Just look at the pictures...

Also painting wooden boxes gave the kids a lot of fun. They had a lot of ideas what they can put into them: earrings, coins, necklaces, some Lego, tooth, etc. They painted them and one of the group decorated with... herbs and coffee. 

Some kids were making "My Planting And Gardening Book" with many info we have learned during this session. I liked their ideas how to put all these info in the book.

We had also planting Marigold, Botanical name: Tagetes erecta Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family). More info:

Marigold are among the very popular flowers commonly found in India and other countries. They can be easily cultivated, are widely adaptable to varying soils and climatic conditions and have a good flowering duration. This bushy plant with around 20 to 30 species, have a long flowering period and the colours range from orange, yellow, gold, cream to apricot. They are very much used in making garlands. Make excellent beds and pot decorations. 

Of course Eco Kids also played and had a lot of fun together. They are great as a team, what I always say to you! It is also part of being eco. 

This was the last activity in this session, but we will have another, last one in 2011/2012 school year. I send you the info via e-mail.     
    
See you next week!!!