Earth Day Carnival by Justlife

Wan Li and I were Patch the bird educating kindie kids and pre-schoolers about Earth Day. He, Chinese session, I, English session. The 500+ children between the ages of 2 1/2 - 6 years old were mainly from Tadika Diyana and King's School.

Everyday Patch amuse, teach, sing, make crafts, eat and dance with the children.

Most of the children already know what Planet Earth is. When asked, 'Do you know that Planet Earth is not feeling well?' They answered with conviction 'Planet Earth have a hole because we are throwing a lot a lot of rubbish' 'global warming!' 'my mommy save the Earth every night by switching off the lights!' 'don't cut down the trees!' 'plant more flowers!' 'pick up rubbish' 'don't throw rubbish into the waters if not all the animals will die!'...

You've no idea how excited Patch was to have met so many wonderful children who wants to love the Earth with her. We then sang a birthday song to Earth that went like this

Happy Birthday to Earth
Happy Birthday to Earth
Happy Birthday to Earth
I lo-ove the Earth.....

Free flow of little organic muffins specially baked by Mr Martin the bread artisan were then given out to the kiddies together with a delicious cup of organic blackcurrant juice.

Later, Patch and juslife's team taught the kids how to make notepads using tissue and cereal boxes as covers and assorted strings about to end up in the trash to tie the notepad together. The children decorated the covers with impressions of their love for Earth.












Patch explaining to the kids why Earth is not feeling well and took them on an eco tour, explaining the 3Rs...
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle e.g. they must use reusable lunch boxes instead of disposables takeaway boxes, use hankies instead of tissues, bring own shopping bags and say no to plastic bags, how to turn recyclables into crafting materials to make own toys. And what cannot be used must be sent to the recycling centre. Then Patch showed them the wonders of newspaper, old cloth, plastic bottles and how to make their own toys!