Happy Earth Day - April 22!

We have been talking about Earth Day all week and decided to make some earth day presents for our preschool friends. We peeled the paper off of several green and blue crayons and then put 1 green piece to every 2 blue pieces in a small paper cups. Each cup had the equivalent of 2 blue and one green crayon. Then we put them in the oven at 200 for 10 - 12 minutes. Just long enough for them to melt with out totally liquefying. After cooling for an hour we peeled the paper cup and the result was a planet shaped crayon.

Our next project to celebrate Earth day was to create bird food necklaces for all our neighbourhood winged friends. We cut tiny strips of brown paper bag then strung cheerios and Alphabet cereal on the strand of paper. We tied them off and hung them in the trees for the birds to eat. We were very surprised to see that the robins liked the cheerios a lot. We will be bringing a bunch out to the chickadees along a local walking trail later in the week.
Sid asked if we could freecycle her little tikes tool bench and all the plastic tools because she needed REAL tools to help daddy work in the garage. So the plastic tools are gone and Daddy took Sid tool shopping. She arrived home with her very own 47 piece tool kit and Dad put her to work disassembling computer hardware to split up for recycling. She is very good with a screwdriver!

Our final project for Earth Day is Sid's new plant, a Bromeliad. She informed me that with all this work we were doing for Earth Day, she should get an Earth Day present (hmmm she doesn't miss a beat!). So we decided a plant would be the perfect gift. This morning we picked it out and now it lives on Sid's dresser in her room where she will love it, care for it and call it Dranker. I hope it lives.....