🔬 Earth Helpers: Sort and Recycle

🧺 Materials

• clean recyclables (paper, plastic bottle, clean can)
• a banana peel or food scrap
• two bins or boxes
• labels or drawings (optional)

📋 Instructions (parent)

1. Gather a few clean, safe items: paper, a plastic bottle, a clean can, and a food scrap.
2. Set up two bins, one for recycling and one for trash or compost.
3. Talk about how reusing and recycling helps keep the Earth clean.
4. Let your child sort each item into the right bin and say its name in Spanish.
5. Brainstorm one way your family can help the Earth, like turning off lights.
6. Take the recycling to your bin together as a real helper job.

➕ Extension ideas

• Make a craft from a clean recyclable, like a bottle shaker or paper tube.
• Take a short walk and pick up one piece of litter together with gloves.

🗣️ Parent script — say it in Spanish

💬 Conversation prompts

• ¿Esto va al reciclaje o a la basura?
• ¿Cómo podemos cuidar la Tierra?
• ¿Por qué es bueno reciclar?
• ¿Qué cosas podemos usar otra vez?
• ¿Qué pasa si tiramos basura al suelo?

🔑 Vocabulary

• reciclar — to recycle
• basura — trash
• Tierra — Earth
• cuidar — to care for
• limpio — clean
• papel — paper
• botella — bottle