Teaching your homeschool students to be responsible citizens of tomorrow includes teaching them how to maximize the use out of all the resources they own. Recycling of paper, plastic, metals and more around the house takes on a whole new light when you are homeschooling. Yes, you will teach them about bringing things to the recycling collection areas, but you will also be in the unique place to teach them how they can use recycling in their daily lives, specially in the homeschool classroom.
How do You Begin Recycling in the Homeschool Classroom?
Arts and crafts can be a great subject to teach recycling with. Take an old soda bottle and convert it into a pencil stand. Decorate it and pretty it up so that it’s a pleasure to behold and useful to boot. Take an old tire and refurbish it with some cotton stuffing and canvas material. Let the homeschool student paint it and you have a new stool to sit out in the porch. Cut out glass bottles and fit in a bulb to make novel lamp shades. Allow the bottles to be decorated by the children. Take old spoons and forks and string them up into a wind chime. There is literally no dearth of craft projects that can be initiated using the recycling principle.The idea is to take one old thing that you are no longer using for its intended purpose and then recycling it in to something that can be used by you and your family everyday.
What if You Have No Ideas?
Not everyone is highly creative and can come up with the innovative recycling craft projects we have been discussing. That’s where the internet can really come in handy. Something as simple as the term “DIY home recycling ideas” typed into a search engine will give you a plethora of possible projects. The best part is that bloggers usually share all the steps they took while making their projects. All you need to do is take a look at the raw material available at home and hone in on a recycling project from these search results. It does not have to be exactly the same either, as you can take a basic idea and modify it to suit your purpose.
