How to spend your vacation

 How children can make the best use of summer holidays ? 

 

As the coronavirus pandemic forces governments worldwide to impose lockdowns and curfews, celebrating holidays like the upcoming summer holidays may be different from the previous years due to the preventative measures and social distancing rules.

To give oneself a break, and enjoy the past-time, they mustmake best use of their holidays with family members and friends. 

a) Greet family and friends through video calls

b) Cook breakfast with the family

c) Bake your own desserts

d) Organize an at-home movie night

e) Make BEST-OUT-OF-WASTE models 

 

SDG – 12 : Responsible Consumption and Promotion

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a collection of 17 global goals designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all". The SDGs, set in 2015 by the United Nations and intended to be achieved by the year 2030. 

The targets of ‘Goal 12’ include using eco-friendly production methods and reducing the amount of waste. By 2030, national recycling rates should increase, as measured in tons of material recycled.

Create BEST-OUT-OF-WASTE models

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure!

Do you have old toy, show piece, plastic bottle, CDs, etclying in your house that you think you don’t need them? Why not make the best use of these ‘waste items’ ! It will not just keep your kids busy, but also encourage them to try out new things.

Recycling and reusing the valuable waste materials can result in development of fantastic and usable products. Rather than putting the waste materials into the landfills, various innovative and creative ideas can be put together to being something new and useful.

 

 

This will eventually achieve the following objective :- 

• To develop the ability to think and organize the thinking to create something useful. 

• To indulge the students into a extracurricular activity with exclusive tool i.e. waste material. 

• To explore the environmental concepts and actions which are beyond the curriculum & syllabus.

• To make our vision and outlook broader about the nature & society. 

• To control the harmful effects of waste on our environment.

Here are some ideas to create beautiful BEST-OUT-OF-WASTE  Models :

The plastic bottle can be cut as shown in the picture, and beautifully painted. It can be hung outside the house on trees, fences and grills to feed the birds with seeds and even water.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Its difficult to find places near the plug points to keep our costly mobile phones while they are ‘charged’. 

The chart paper cuttings can be used to hang the mobile phones near the charging points in our homes, Even the old shampoo bottle can come handy.

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The Plastic bottles can be ‘stuffed’ with waste-cotton balls or paper and converted into beautiful models of Penguins

 

The not-so-liked ‘old’ Jeans can be of great help while shopping if its transformed into an eco-friendly bag

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Everyone likes new dresses, but what to do if you have old over-sized clothes at home 

and you don’t want to discard them ?

 

“Coconut, Coconut everywhere, but no place to keep their shells ?” 

They say that in Kerala, the people consume almost every part of the Coconut tree. It’s so useful ! Why bother for the shells then? Let’s make models out of them as shown in the picture.

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The Zipper of the old trousers can be used to cover                       The CDs can be painted to make wall-hangings

the headphones and prevent the ‘entanglement’  

 

                                                

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                          

 

The bottle neck can be cut and the pulses can be ‘stored’ by using the lid

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