Hi Everyone! I am following up on yesterday’s Earth Day challenge that I started at home with my kids.\u00a0 We spent some time building from recycled materials yesterday and worked REALLY hard at remembering to turn off unnecessary lights and water (this was particularly difficult for my daughter, GG).<\/p>\n
Using recycled materials reminded me of a great story about a group of women in the Gambia region in Africa.\u00a0 One woman, Isatou Ceesay, was upset about how much garbage was found on the ground in her community.\u00a0 Plastic bags were everywhere and she decided to try to reuse them and create something beautiful from something that would’ve ended up polluting our planet.\u00a0 You can listen to the story, One Plastic Bag<\/em> by Miranda Paul on EPIC<\/a> and find more information about the project on the official site<\/a>.\u00a0 (Brantford students, if don’t have access to Epic, please have your parents email me and I can forward a login code to you.)<\/p>\n If you feel inspired to create from recycled products, there are a tonne of suggestions online.\u00a0 I liked these ones the best:<\/p>\n 1\u00a0 Plastic Bag Skip Rope (get some exercise and recycle!)<\/p>\n