Greenies are everywhere, and I must say I really enjoyed introducing my young charges to the joys of getting down and dirty.Whilst I don't put my littlies faces on the net, its easy to see from these red hats that they are all well and having fun. Yesterday my class and another class of six year olds headed off to the local bushland park to add our efforts to greening Australia and fighting climate change.
We were met by two local environmentalists who led us and the parent helpers to a shed. Here the kids rolled up their sleeves and mixed up a blend of worm poo, local bush seeds, red soil with a good dollop of water. As might be imagined most of them loved getting into the bucket of mud. Of course there's always one or two.
"I don't want to get my hands dirty." said in that moany, mewly way that all parents recognise.
I couldn't believe it when one of the parents pulled out some rubber gloves and handed them to the reluctant mud ball makers. Problem solved.
After cleaning themselves up in buckets of water, the kids headed out to throw the small balls of mud encrusted seeds into the bush. Hopefully one or two will produce the desired result and small seedlings will appear after the next downpour.
Great fun for one and all.........the kids had a ball and so did the the adults.
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