Ecoletters to Santa!

On Saturday there will be the last ecoclass in this session and we will write ecoletters to Santa. The mailbox is ready waiting for the letters! 

Eco Kids will also sign and draw pictures of themselves on the mailbox. Wow! There will be lots of fun! 

Also we will paint the wooden Santas, Christmas trees and glue the wooden angels and paint them later on.

There will also be PANCAKES outside!!!

We can't wait!

The next session (the next 6 meetings) starts on 14th of January.

Winter and Christmas trees

Our ecoworkhop is connecting eco art and craft and ecogames. Getting outdoor exercise in the garden is part of being eco. So every time, we start the ecoworkshop like this. Also we take breaks outside to play games. Physical education is an important part of being eco.     

place for outdoor activieties and our... toys:)

Being outside is also important, because Eco kids get inspiration for all projects, from being outdoors.

Today we had a very creative ecoworshop with art and crafts! The subject was winter and Christmas. So first we made a Christmas tree using paper bags and also old newspapers to fill the bags. Later we put "snow" on it. It was fun to make it.  

Then we made another Christmas tree from toilet paper tubes. I cut them for the kids some days before and... it turned out to be 90 pieces. Can you believe how many toilet paper tubes we saved?  It was one of our most challenging projects. Eco kids had to put the green paper on all 6 tubes and then connect and decorate them. They did an amazing job!

I have to say that all of the kids working in this session are great.

Next week we meet for the last time in this session (the next one starts on January) and we will have a lot of Christmas work then! We will make wooden angels, Christmas trees and Santas. See you all!

Eco games and art craft

Today we welcomed new Eco Kids! We played a lot outside, cause being eco is also being close to nature, sportive & caring for health. We started with making… a cake for Grace. We did it from boxes, bottles and cartons! It was big and it looked amazing and funny. We sang Grace “Happy Birthday” and “Sto lat”. 

Then one group stayed outside to play games in which we were used the recycling materials. For example a snake, slalom with cartons, basketball practice with bottle and a contest who would build the tallest tower. It was a lot of fun! Ask your kids about the details. 

Then the second group was doing arts and crafts in the workshop. First we made candles with different decorations and some coffee crops inside. 

 

 
Then we made octopuses from bottles. The kids loved this project! It is awesome, when you take a bottle, which you normally put into the trash and make it into something like this. Eco kids did a great job! The octopuses were full of colors – it was the way imagination worked out. We switched after every project, so the kids were busy with playing games and making the crafts here and there. 

It was a great workshop!

See you next week!  

Eco snakes project

Today Eco Kids brought the sun into our garden and the class.

We were happy to have some new Eco Kids: Jasmine, Joel and Jonas and a very special guest, the Roots & Shoots leader in ASW - Mrs. Lynn Hammond. She helped us with many things.

On the beginning we made some more hands' prints as the signs of nature. Some Eco Kids signed them with their names.

We have started the art craft work with the challenging project, a snake. There was a lot of work changing the toilet paper tubes into snakes. All together we used 44 toilet paper tubes, isn't that amazing? The kids did a fantastic job! We made the different skins of the animal with many different designs. It was very colorful! You can see how our work turned out to be...

Then we started the candles project, but we will finish it on the next workshop so then there will I be ale to explain more about it.

As usually the second part of the workshop was different. We made a game, building a great wall out of the boxes, cans, bottles and the other things. Then we tried to demolish it this. That was fun! Its amazing how little things you need to play and inspire yourself. Then we made a big terrarium for our snakes also from the same things we made our wall from. Later we named them. Everybody liked it.

It was not easy to finish but the time passed quickly!

 See you next week great eco team! 

The great builders!

Today was such a great sunny day, which made us to walk into the garden and pick up the leaves. We needed the leaves to make the vases from the plastic bottles.

 

We had was so much fun decorating the bottles with the leaves. And everybody found something individual, something special to add to his or her vase.. Every single work was different from the other. It was such a great thing! One of the very interesting ideas was Samuel's idea. I am sure the kids showed you the vases and were proud of them.

The next thing was making the tree. We used the things you normally put into the trash for eg. the kitchen paper towel tubes and the some leftover materials. We also used natural materials like the small branches from the garden and pine-cones. It was really challenging! We made a whole exhibition with the trees. It was our forest.

The last project was... building. I collected many boxes with different sizes, a lot of plastic bottles, some cans, and a lot of other things for the kids. Eco kids built what they wanted to. Houses and castles... It was amazing! They were working in groups and the effect... wow! I loved it! You can see it on the photos, but I am happy a lot of you saw it in real life.

 

Can't wait for the next week, Eco Kids!