It's Earth Day April 22

Our planet is in need of our help more than ever before.  One of the ways we can all help is by recycling.  Did you know there is a right and a wrong way to recycle?  Check out this easy to make home recycling center I found on Pinterest while researching updating my own home recycling system.  

I've listed below a general guideline to help with your recycling.

Photo Esther Solomon Pinterest

These items almost always go in the curbside bins:

Paper

Flattened cardboard

Metal cans

Plastic bottles and jugs

These items are usually accepted but check with your local village before including them:

Glass bottles and jars

Milk cartons and juice boxes

Aluminum pie tins and food trays but NOT aluminum foil

These items NEVER go in curbside bin:

Styrofoam

Yard waste

Items with food on them

Pizza boxes

Batteries or electronics

Disposable cups and lids

Metal or plastic hangers

Bubble wrap, plastic wrap or basically any plastic you can poke a hole through with your finger

Don't recycle anything smaller than an ID card.

Many times recycling is sorted by hand but often it is now sorted my machine. Sorting our recycling is confusing but if done properly, it will make the job of workers and their machinery easier and keep it functioning properly.

Happy Earth Day🌍

How Can You Celebrate Earth Day this Weekend?

photo and ideas found on Family Education

Celebrate Earth Day on Sunday, April 22 by learning more about our environment and make a commitment to help protect the world we live in.  Get involved in community groups or start a group of your own.  Plant trees or perhaps find others who have an interest in installing a community garden in your neighborhood.  Toss your bottled waters and invest in a good BPA free bottle to refill on your own.  

Children are never too young to begin teaching how to nurture their neighborhood and the earth.  An excellent source of information link is fun.familyeducation.  

~A few of my favorite ideas are ~

Take a family bike ride explaining you are using an environmentally friendly mode of transportation.

Turn off the heat or air conditioning and open the windows.  

Scatter seeds or bread crumbs in your yard and let your children watch the variety of birds who gather to enjoy the "Earth Day" feast.

Cook a meal together using local produce.  Supporting local farmers and markets reduces your dependency on fossil fuels used to otherwise get these items to you. 

What are you doing today to observe conservation of our great planet? 

Enjoy your Weekend!

Celebrating Earth Day

Earth Day is celebrated each year since 1970 on April 22nd in more than 192 countries.  It is a day in which worldwide support for environmental protection is supported in many ways.  

I found these Earth Day snacks online to make with your kids they will love (& you will too)

Photo & Recipe courtesy of The Educator's Spin On It

Ingredients:  1 cup blueberries cut in half
1 cup green grapes cut in fourths
1 package cream cheese
1/4 teaspoon vanilla (I love thespicehouse)
1 tablespoon sugar
A package of rice cakes (apple cinnamon rice cakes are sweeter)
Mix the sugar, vanilla and cream cheese in a bowl.  Spread the cream cheese onto the rice cake.  
Create the earth by placing the blueberries for the water and the grapes for the land. 

Photo & Courtesy of Creativefunfood.com

Mix up your favorite pancake mix.  Separate into two bowls for two different colors: blue and green.  Use a few drops of food coloring into each and mix it well.  Once your batter is fully mixed, our each into a squeeze bottle. 

On your griddle (low heat) pour the batter into a circle with the blue batter.  Then outline the continents/earth in the green batter.  Cook until the batter is bubbly.  Fill in the continents with the green batter and let it cook.  Gently flip the pancake and let it cook on the other side.  

Good snacks and teaching the kids about the Earth.  

Enjoy and I appreciate you stopping by Lake House Lyn!