Eco drinks by Eco Kids

This Saturday we tried many new outdoor games and had a lot of fun. Here many thanks to my both sons, who helped me a lot in it! Eco Kids were running a lot, so snack with water and fruits were needed quite early. The most important is kids learn to play with friends, who are younger and they need to help them or older and then they can count on help from them. Everybody is involved, but if anybody would like to stop and just watch for a while can make it. 

We still had time for projects. First group finished the dogs...

And then made candles from CD. You can see them on the photos drying. Kids liked that projects, because of simply idea of it, I think.

The second group too. This group had more time, because they finishe the dogs last Saturday, so we went for ice cream. 

The most important project for this Eco Kids workshop was eco drink. We were talking about healthy drinks, what ingredients they should have, what is unhealthy in many drinks, why drinking healthy drinks is so important, etc. Kids made their own drinks out of glass bottle, they decided from which fruits, they put the name of it, etc. Doing this was very interesting.

Next week – next projects are coming... It will be also the last workshop in this session. Time flies especially when you enjoy! 

The boat is ready to sail!

This was so exciting Saturday! We made a huge boat from the cardboard boxes. I had many of them after renovation in my house and of course how could I just throw them away? So we reused them to have a good time. We made the boat all together as a team. Age did not matter, everyone had something to build: life boats, sails, flag, etc. Kids were so excited and involved - it was just great to see it! This project was unique and I was happy kids loved it as much as I did. 

 
The next project was a wooden dog. First Eco Kids had to connect all the pieces of wood to get the dog (terrier) ready to paint. It was not so easy, but they managed. They painted the dogs in brown, white, black, etc. The dogs were drying during the time of making the boat. The first group will finish them next Saturday, the second group, who did not make the boat, but was playing in it, had the time to finish the dogs. Second group put the spots on the dogs, they also made the cats out of the cat food boxes. 
I gave all Eco Kids the books, where the dog was one of the characters. They were looking forward to read it at home. 

Do you think that now the cardboard boxes are not useful anymore? No! We will build something new out of it and now I already have an idea... 
   
  

Many kids, many ideas

This Saturday Eco Kids workshop was full of kids. Some of them just joined us, what is great! There were many games we played outside, having fun and learn how to cope with younger and older kids, how to make a team and cooperate. 
Arts & crafts projects made me proud of Eco Kids. They were painting just beautifully! We made nice containers for autumn treasures eg. pine coins. The container is made out of rest overs from marble, what I have told Eco kids. All the kids really enjoyed the project. We also made Battery Eater Monster project. Oh, we had a lot of scary monsters...! All of them will "eat" batteries and so they are very ecological. Kids were learning why you should put the battery just to the trash. Additional things? First group had ice cream in our favorite bakery. The second group made one more project - Cat box. 
It was very busy time, we did not have a minute free and in the end kids did not want to come back home. I am not surprise:)
See you this Saturday!