Little experts for waste separation & Co.
Today's daycare children are tomorrow's do-gooders - they pay attention to everything they hold dear. Tomorrow's environmental ambassadors usually get their basic knowledge from daycare centers and kindergartens.
Children can be quite strict. Once they know the importance of separating waste or saving water, they urge parents and grandparents to follow their example. Where do they get it from? When it comes to teaching values like sustainability and environmental protection, it's usually daycare centers and kindergartens that are behind it.
The older the children are, the more consciously they perceive the world around them and understand that they can make a difference. We encourage interest and deepen knowledge with various projects. Globegarden has specifically anchored the reinforcement of these values in the educational areas "Our World" and "Well Aware".
We go out into nature with the children, collect and separate waste, avoid garbage and see what we can change in everyday life. It is even better if parents and family members also teach the children about environmental awareness, because how lasting respect for the environment remains in the minds and hearts also depends on socialization.
Questioning instead of actionism
Avoid one-off actions. Cleaning up or saving water becomes a daily routine and by asking why there is so much waste or how it can be avoided, understanding and knowledge are further deepened. The next step is about resources and recycling and what steps can be taken here.
When it comes to nutrition, the children are fascinated by the fact that bread is made from grain or that cheese and yogurt are made from cow's milk. The topic of soil can be brought closer by investigating which creatures live in the soil or what the roots of plants look like and why the plant needs them.
Small steps with effect
Children copy what they see at home or in the daycare center. Here are a few easy ideas:
- Drinking tap water saves packaging waste.
- Use regional ingredients when cooking, it saves emissions caused by transport.
- Have your own vegetable patch in the garden or on the balcony to learn about growing and harvesting.
- A weekly meal plan that incorporates leftovers from the day before.
- Mixing bubble mixtures yourself is fun and saves packaging.
- Wrap gifts in fabric or recycled paper.
- Ventilate windows instead of tilting them, it saves energy.
