The 3Rs project – REDUCE, REUSE, RECYLE, a part of the integration program of the National Curriculum and the American Creative Curriculum, is launched in Mid-May.

With the 3Rs project, students learn that things like nylon bags, egg shells or porcelain items will become solid unrecyclable trash while compostable trash include leftover food, napkin tissues, flowers and leaves. Tin cans, plastic items and clothes are classified as recyclable trash.

Identify the recyclable materials

After raising students’ awareness, teachers will instruct them to handle their everyday items properly.

They learn to use less solid unrecyclable trash. Some kids remind adults to use recyclable bags for shopping, while others say that they will be careful not to break their grandparents’ porcelain. The students also promise to eat all their meals to avoid leftover food. As for recyclable garbage, kids ask excitedly at the beginning of each lesson, ‘Teacher, what are we making today?’.

With ‘Learn through Play’, old things are ‘revived’ by kids’ creative decorations.

Making paper collage from newspaper.

A picture of a recycled car

This is the chance for the students to enhance their fine motor skills including cutting, gluing, and matching colors. Kids learn how to hold scissors properly, cut nicely, glue carefully, and how to match colors beautifully, etc.

Making pencil cases/ flowers pots from water bottles

With just a tiny hole on the cap, it then becomes a watering bottle

Students paint their plastic plate bags.

Threading activity with plastic plates featuring a spider spinning web

or ‘magically’ turning the plastic plates into ladybugs with green antenna, colorful wings with black spots.

Using rims of plastic plates to make colorful caterpillars

Boosting their memory and imaginati
on with sea creature crafts – Kindy City version

Beautiful butterflies made from plastic spoons.

With 2 yogurt pots, kids can turn them into a cat robot.

Interesting stick robots

Enhance their logical thinking with silver blocks to make a robot.

With the game ‘straws – plastic cups – small balls’, students are challenged to be patient and to hold their breath longer.

Students got to improve tactic and fine motor skills, practice ‘Bowling’ and ‘Ring Toss’ with bottles in shapes of penguins and the rings made from wires

The used car tires, after being decorated by the children, have become indispensable to Kindy City school yard.

No child wouldn’t be curious about how kites work and excited to make their own. Understanding that longing; with crayons, recycled paper and handmade ribbons in the 3Rs project, the children create their own unique ‘childhood kites’.

Those unwanted items of one person may turn into useful materials for others and at times, we can discover interesting things from recycled pieces. With the 3R’s projects, we will instill the good habits of taking care of the planet in children. Kids will learn about the importance of protecting the environment and understand the so-called ‘green’ environment, or why we would need it. They will also learn how to recycle effectively to make projects that are either eye-catching or cheap and usable.