I want to share this great little book I recently received and it just happens to be perfect for Earth Day! Go Green is the brand new series from Disney that was created to inspire families to lead a sustainable lifestyle. This means that we sustain ourselves on planet Earth without taking so much from it that it can’t sustain it’s future inhabitants. In order to do this we need to take a long hard look at how we do things and make some changes. As tough as it may seem to be, it is worth it in the long run.
Children are like sponges and they soak up new things every day. As the future of our planet it is important to teach our children the importance of sustainability. Go Green: A Family Guide To A Sustainable Lifestyle is the perfect teaching tool as it combines the fun of Disney with an educational component. The book explains how to create a more sustainable life by exploring the Three R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. This is a concept that we are all pretty used to, but Disney ramps it up by adding in lots of fun activities kids can do on their own or with their families.
The crafts in this book are designed to show children how creative they can be with items found in nature or by reusing the things around them. A great activity for families to try out together is to create your own watercolours! Instead of buying paint you can make your own by boiling water and adding fruits and plants to release their natural dyes. For example boiling red onion peels will create a crimson red colour, coffee beans produce browns and tans, blueberries make blue and dandelions produce wonderful greens.
Go Green focuses on explaining the importance of living a sustainable lifestyle in an easy and fun manner so that children will want to do this and make it a way of life. We are reminded that, “Sometimes making green choices takes us out of our comfort zone… At these times it’s good to remember that we’re doing what is best for us and what is best for the environment.”
I encourage you to Go Green and have a Happy Earth Day!
FT&PD
Suz
Cute book, love the idea of using different ways to introduce green living to kids. Where can you get the book?
I think your father and I will plant a couple more trees, when the weather warms up a little more!
I’m slowly learning how to go more green. We have mandatory recycling where I live, so it’s a step in the right direction.
I love that it teaches about making natural dyes – that sounds like a fantastic fun project for a future green teaching moment.
My daughter would love this, she was telling us all about what her school was doing for Earth Day, nice to know there are books for kids on it as well!
That’s so cute!! Definitely need to find this pamphlet or something similar for the nephew. We haven’t explained to him well on the 3R’s (hoping school covers what we missed, lol!) He’s great at helping us add stuff to the different bins, but I’m sure he has no clue as to why we have different bins for different trash.
What a great idea! Explaining some of these concepts for kids can be tough so it’s great to have a little booklet to make it interesting and understandable for them. 🙂 I definitely think it’s important to take care of our planet and be stewards of the resources we have. I try to teach my kids this, but it’s great to have help in teaching them – and then THEY help ME remember to do it too. 🙂 Thanks for sharing.
What a lovely book of teaching kids a fun way of important things like the 3Rs! I am going to tell my sister about this … she’s a teacher! =)
This is a great series! I’d love to get a hold of a copy. My girl is a huge Mickey mouse fan, and I think it would be great to teach her about sustainable living with the help of her friend Mickey!
I’ll be on the look out for this!
It really makes the kids want to be involved more Laurie when they can do so with their fave characters :-0
That is interesting… I’ve never heard of making your own watercolors before! That is a great environmental idea to teach and play with the kids!
I love that boook! where can I find it? Great way to teach kids
I’d love to get a hold of a copy,we need to teach our kids from young important things like the 3Rs.
Great book..I think itis important to teach our children to be ‘GREEN’ as young as possible, they are going to be the ones who decide the future of the planet..this book teaches an important concept while making it fun!!
If we all work together we CAN make a difference
Love this series great message
We are trying to get our kids to go green. It’s actually pretty fun and not as hard as I thought.
Will check for this book for the grandkids they are old enough to start helping make a difference
Such a great idea to teach kids about being green.
If we change they way we do things even as just one a day we will certainly reap the benefits of a cleaner planet
With the start of school, it’s good to reinforce the Three R’s.
Great idea to get Mickey involved with earth day
We are learning how to go more green everyday,we can all do a small part to make a difference
It’s definitely the way to go, helping to teach children at an early age how to help to try to save planet earth.
Great book for my granddaughters.