Work with friends or family to build an artwork to give as a gift or as a team-building activity. Using Reverse Garbage’s unique reuse materials each member will receive a kit with instructions to create a part of an artwork. Individuals create their piece and return them. Our artist will then use the individual elements … Continue reading Collaborative Group Artwork For Kids Or Adults
We have turned our education room into a recording studio and have taught ourselves how to ‘go live’. If you are looking for an activity that is good for the environment and will get the kids thinking creatively about reuse materials and how we can all be more sustainable then check out what we are … Continue reading Mail out craft activities and live classes
Attention parents! Looking for ways to keep your kids entertained during isolation? We are running a competition and we want to see your child’s arty reuse creations! So whilst stuck at home in isolation, get your kids to make something creative and arty out of waste or packaging they find around the house! It’s a … Continue reading Isolation Kids Challenge #RGkidsISOchallenge
We have had an overwhelmingly positive response from our community eager to help our amazing health professionals by making face shields. Thank you. We handed out our first run of kits to make 700 masks on 26 March – thanks to our generous donors Husky Tapes and The Foam Booth. Now we need your help … Continue reading Face shield instructions
It’s business as usual for our school holiday programs and new spaces have become available due to shopping centre cancellations. We understand that with museums, galleries and many other locations no longer available you might be looking for an inexpensive, sustainable activity to keep the children entertained. Naturally we are complying with all the recommendations … Continue reading OOSH / Vacation Care with Reverse Garbage – Spots available for the upcoming April 2020 school holidays
Small changes can make a big difference. One change you and your kids can make this Easter is to choose to reuse for the Easter hat parade. Imagine this, hundreds of kids at your school are excited to participate in the yearly Easter hat parade. Each child creates a beautiful and unique piece of art … Continue reading How to have a more environmentally friendly Easter hat parade
By collecting bottle caps or other pieces of material around the house that can be reused in arts and crafts, families can create zero-waste artwork, providing hours of school holiday fun whilst also being good for the environment. Last week, Reverse Garbage Education had the opportunity to run reuse workshops at Westfield Hornsby as a … Continue reading Sustainability and Environment Week at Westfield Hornsby
Our December newsletter for educators includes a save the date for our early childhood educators professional development program in February, a year in review, and a call to vote. Click here to read it. To be the one of the first to receive the next issue, subscribe here:
Our December newsletter includes a 2018/19 year in review, January workshops for kids and adults, a call to vote for us to win a grant, ideas on how to donate, wine and Christmas holidays. Click here to read the December 2019 newsletter Reuse Matters. To be the first to hear our news, subscribe to our … Continue reading Reuse Matters newsletter
By Leslie Cheung, Year 11 student I remember the first day I volunteered to help out at a workshop at Reverse Garbage. I had almost no clue what I was doing and as I entered, I silently watched from the side as the educator explained the day’s activities and handed out instructions for the kids. … Continue reading The life of an education volunteer at Reverse Garbage
