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Earth Day Senior Citizen Activities Employing Plastic H2oBottles

This calendar year I am arranging a handful of unique "Earth friendly" Earth Working day

tasks for the Horticultural Treatment and Crafting lessons I train to Seniors- despite the fact

that we reuse and recycle family things in our programs calendar year-spherical.

Most of my pupils are still pretty frugal given that they lived by way of the Melancholy and

realized to make do with extremely tiny in the course of that time. I've been told stories about

how their Moms would make their underwear out of flour sacks, residence gardens that

presented most of their foods throughout the war and how their Moms would just take a

appear at a official robe in the shop window and create an exact replica by hand when they

did not have the money for shop-acquired outfits.

As element of my ongoing courses I presently reuse and recycle a whole lot of commonly

discarded household items including plastic drinking water bottles, paper juice and milk

cartons, gallon milk jugs, two liter plastic bottles, paper and plastic egg cartons, egg bingo

liner shells, paper towel tubes, brown paper bags and newspaper to identify a couple of.

This article will focus on tasks that reuse plastic drinking bottles. Plastic drinking bottles have

a profoundly unfavorable effect on our natural environment and are becoming a bigger

difficulty every working day. The Planet Wildlife Federation states that 1.five million tons of

plastic is used in bottling 89 billion liters of h2o every single yr. This approach assists in the

draining of the world's fossil fuels and creates tons of trash that will consider 70 to 450 many

years to degrade in our landfills. So every single bottle we maintain out of the landfill aids

potential generations. And we can all really feel excellent about that!

Here are a couple of of the entertaining initiatives my lessons have done in the past 12

months to reuse all or portion of a plastic drinking bottle:

Recreation Board Markers- Ingesting bottle caps can be utilised as recreation pieces for

house created Bingo sport markers. I developed Butterfly Garden Bottle Cap Bingo that

used bottle caps as spot markers on the Bingo cards. The Bingo Cards ended up printed on

8.5 x 11 sheets and had been laminated making use of shelf liner vinyl- so they are

reusable. Bottle caps had been adorned with fun flower and bug stickers. Seniors love their

Bingo so this was a fantastic way to educate my college students the names of the diverse

vegetation that develop effectively in our location that will draw butterflies to their backyard

garden.

Paper mache vases-This activity actually reuses two frequent things that go into the landfill

every single working day- plastic bottles and newspaper. We lined the plastic consuming

bottles with many layers of strips of newspaper dipped in fluid starch (you can also use

watered down glue or a flour mixture). Then we painted the bottles with acrylic paints and a

coat of Modge Podge and embellished them with yarn, beads, buttons, glass beads and

other supplies. The vases are water-proof so they can be utilized to exhibit refreshing, dried

or silk blossoms.