Looking after the earth

Ages 3 to 5 Read and do together · about 15 minutes

Read together

The Earth is our home. We can take care of it.

Reduce, reuse, recycle.

Do it

1. Sort a few items into piles: paper, plastic, metal, food scraps. Ask which can be used again.
2. Make something new from a clean box or jar: a pencil holder, a bird feeder.
3. Go for a walk with a grown-up and pick up litter wearing gloves or using tongs.
4. Water a plant or plant a seed. Say thank you for the earth.

Talk about it

• What can we use again?
• How can we help the earth this week?

For the grown-up

Small habits, such as reusing and recycling, show children that we are responsible for the world God made. Choose tasks a child can really do and enjoy.

Mark as done

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Where this comes from

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”
• United Nations Environment Programme, resources on reducing waste and plastic pollution

Written with AI assistance and checked against the sources listed. Please read it before sharing it with a child.