For this activity, you can first brainstorm and discuss what carbon footprint is with the children.
Basically carbon footprint is the amount of carbon dioxide or greenhouse gases that are produced as a result of our daily living.
You can then list some examples that lead to carbon footprint, so that the children would be able to better understand. Some examples include:
- driving a car – burning of fuel
- flying a plane – burning of fuel
- wasting energy in our house e.g. keeping lights on
- buying imported food – food that travels long distances
- buying non-organic food – issue of pesticides
- wasting water
On a paper, you can print your child’s footprint and together discuss on ways how you can reduce the carbon footprint, similar to the image below.
Some Eco-friendly points that you can discuss together:
- carpooling
- walking short distances instead of using the car
- turning off lights
- not wasting water
- recycling paper, plastic bottles, metal cans
- reusing recyclable materials for crafts
- not wasting food
- taking our reusable cloth bags when going shopping
- avoiding single-use plastic
Hope that you find this activity useful 🙂
Kindergarten Fun 