Little Miss Tinker Bell has a new title to go along with her new look: UN Honorary Ambassador or Green.
The United Nations named Disney’s Tinker Bell an “Honorary Ambassador of Green” on October 25, 2009 to help promote environmental awareness among children.
Your kids can help Tink keep the Earth green by pitching in themselves. Here are some great ways your children can lend their favorite fairy a helping hand.
Teach your child how to recycle: Show them how newspapers, magazines, glass and plastic bottles go in different containers and must be sorted accordingly. You can even make a game of it where your child earns points for correctly sorting.
Walk with a purpose: Walk whenever possible, but make sure your child knows you are doing it not only for your health, but to cut down on pollution. Plan a special trip each week with your child where you walk to run your errands instead of drive.
Turn it off: Make a deal with your child that everyone in the house will turn off the lights when they leave a room. If anyone catches someone leaving without flipping the switch, they have to put a quarter in a jar. Once the jar is full, donated the collected money to your favorite green charity.
Get crafty with recycled paper: Make notebooks for homework or doodling out of cereal boxes and recycled paper. Have your kids save their favorite cereal boxes and cut the front cover into a 9 x 12 square. Collect 50 sheets of used paper with one clean side; flip the stack over and punch 3 holes down one side of the stack. Slip metal rings through the holes to hold it all together.
There are so many ways kids can get involved in saving the Earth each and every day. Let your kids know it is up to them to do their part. Tink would be proud.
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