EDMONTON GARRISON MILITARY | DAYCARE CENTRE

Paper Recycling

As our Daycare Centre does not recycle paper and our preschool classroom uses a lot of paper we decided to put a paper recycling bin in the classroom to collect enough paper that we could reuse it by turning it into new paper. After we collected a large amount of paper, we scheduled a day to do paper making with the children. Of course they loved tearing up the paper into small pieces which was our first step in the process. They were given the option of using scissors or their hands. Afterwards, Ms. Britta took the pieces to the kitchen to cook them in a pot of hot water before blending them to a pulp. The pulp mixture was taken back to the classroom where the children got to squish and squeeze out the liquid before we rolled it out flat to bake in the oven. This provided a different type of sensory experience!

While it was baking, we talked about what other items we can recycle as well as the recycling truck. The children were quite engaged in learned about recycling. Once the paper was done, Ms. Britta showed the children what they helped make and the children started playing with the paper and putting it in the recycling truck. We also compared it to an egg carton to see how similar they were. The children continue to recycle their papers that we now take to a recycling centre.