Rubbish to treasure
12 April 2011
Victoria Carter a director of Kidicorp says her years of being involved with the kindergarten association made her appreciate that one man's rubbish is another child's treasure! She regularly brings what some might consider 'rubbish' to childcare centres for the children to turn into something.
The most recently example of this was when she had a new printer delivered for her office. Inside the box were some amazing corrugated cardboard shapes to protect the printer. Before throwing into the paper recycling bin she thought, 'hmm, I bet children could make something amazing out of this.'
And yes, Edukids Manukau children did, they did a learning story on a city that had suffered an earthquake. The earthquake has filled so many television screens that many teachers have used the subject as a learning story to help children process and understand what happened. In this centre the up and down, uneven corrugated shapes were painted by the children and figures and objects placed around and on it to create a city that has had an earthquake. Children then talked about what to do if there was an earthquake.
How exciting to see rubbish turned into such a learning.
