Showing posts with label recycling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recycling. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

How to be Green during parties

You can be green when you organise a party. Here are some ideas:
  • Recycling birthday banners (Don't buy those with age listed).
  • Use recyclable decorations the foil balloons.
  • Don't use disposable utensils.
  • If you use disposables, write your names on utensils so you don't take multiples ones.
  • Use e-invites (Good news, we are developing e-invites exclusively for our clients to use)
  • Give useful items like stationary in your goodies bags, instead of things like noise makers.
  • Order just enough food by getting RSVPs, to reduce food wastage.

Let us know if you any other ideas!

Monday, March 7, 2011

Learning about Protecting the Environment through Magic


Mr Bottle has created an act in which is featured in his Imagine Magic Show.
  • He turns paper into a new newspaper to show that you can recycle paper.
  • Child tries his best to throw paper into recycling bin. Mr Bottle wants to tell everyone that you must make an effort to recycle things.
  • Paper that kids drop into the recycling bin turns to money. This is to show that if you recycle, you not only save the environment, it helps save money as well!
  • The recycling bin eventually becomes full of money.

The people at NEA love it!

We are developing the whole show to spread the word! Email us if you are interested to book this show!

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Robot Making Workshop

This is a great activities for family and kids:
Objective: To creatively turn recycled materials into useful items/art piece
Materials Needed: Old Chopsticks, Rough Paper, Egg cartons,Scissors, White glue, Plastic grocery bag, old Cardboard boxes, and anything that you can collect to recycle.

Start the activity by asking the kids to collect items that the family are about to throw away. Collect items that you and the kids think will be useful in making robots. Use phrases like "Does this look like a robot's hand? What can we do with this box?" You can suggest ideas like, "perhaps you can use this box to be the secret compartment where your robot hides his special suction gun."
Once you have enough of the items, try to piece them together using glue! Encourage your child to be creative. Paint the robot to the colour that you want! That's it!
Personally, it's the process of collecting the items that is fun and meaningful for the kids. Enjoy!

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Earth Day is coming

"We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children."

Coming this 26 March, it will be Earth Day. In the next few weeks, we will show how you and your kids can help do your little part to help mother nature.

One of our founders, Kien, has created a culture in the office to save paper as well as reducing waste.
  • We don't print our emails unless necessary

  • We started payment via credit cards to reduce envelopes and cheque.
  • We print our documents on rough paper if we do not need formal ones.
  • We have a recycling box in the office for paper. (Unfortunately our building doesn't have recycling bin yet so every other month, Kien will bring the box to the nearest recycling point for recycling. We tried to talk to the management to provide one, unfortunately they say no vendors wanted to collect them!)
  • We switch off the lights when we go for lunch!
  • Kien usually cycles or take public transport to work

You can do your part too for the environment; every little step can make a difference to the world.

Just a little background on Kien in his enviromental pursues; he was the Chairperson of NUSSU SAVE (Students Against Violation of the Earth) in his university years and organised activities such as the breaking the Guinness World Record of making the Biggest Sheet of Recycled Paper. He was also in the founding committee of Youth Environment Network. He also represented Singapore in several youths seminars and conferences about the environment.

Until next time....