Reuse -- Day 1

Today at Girl Scouts, I challenged all the girls to find a "sponsor" for their reading. Each girl will collect 5 cents for every book that they read. After a month, we will pool our collection and see how much we have. Later, we will decide where we will donate the money. Some ideas the girls had already include the SPCA, buying cans of food for the food bank, and the Family Reading Partnership to buy books for children who may not have any.

My small effort at reusing involved making collection containers. I brought one of my recycling bins to the meeting and asked each girl to choose one container that they could decorate and use as their collection container. Believe it or not, they were thrilled to pick through our old recycling (this totally makes sense because my own children love this activity as well!). Amazingly, this activity reduced my recycling for the week!!