ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS

 Including children in sustainable practices is fun for the whole family!  Family-friendly environmental activities can be a an educational, hands on way to engage with nature and learn about sustainability. Composting and recycling is a great place to start to engage little ones in learning more about the soil beneath our feet, how plants and the food we eat grows and how to prevent waste with proper sorting knowledge.These activities can help foster a love for the environment and encourage responsible practices like reducing, reusing, and recycling.

Printable Activity Sheets Made in partnership with the City San Diego

A visual pattern of objects with labels, asking "What Goes Where?" Includes images of an apple core, cheese, tortilla chips, bones, orange peel, boots, bread crust, paint, eggshells, books, lettuce, oil, shredded paper, a can, coffee grinds, and a turkey.

What goes where?

Learn what goes into the compost bin, recycling bin or the landfill by printing out this fun activity sheet and and carefully cutting along the dotted outline of each of the cutouts! Click the button below to download and print.

Wormy Words beginner puzzle with a word search and illustrations of a worm and a bug at the bottom.

Wormy Words Word Search

Learn about the process of composting and the various techniques and types with these word searches. Click the button below to view all three levels (beginner, intermediate, and advanced), download, and print.

Maze titled 'Wormy Ways Maze Beginner' featuring a worm at the start and a bin at the finish, with a pathway leading through the maze. The maze is produced by Solana Center with logos at the bottom.

Wormy Ways Maze

Help the worm friends make their way to their compost bin home with this maze! Once the children finish the maze, discuss how to help make the worms at home in their vermicompost bin by feeding them food scraps, coffee grounds or tea bags or how paper products such as shredded newspaper or egg cartons make great bedding for the worms to live in! Click the button below to view all three levels (beginner, intermediate and advanced), download, and print.

School & Youth Programming

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