Attention, stewards! Kindermusik is launching its first official Star Steward Competition to illuminate outstanding sustainability efforts in the Kindermusik community!
If you, your child, or someone close to you has taken on an active environmental leadership role, tell us for a chance to have your story and project shared on Minds on Music.
Winners will gain community support, visibility, and feedback from Kindermusik Green on ways to amplify your project…
50 FREE Songs from play.kindermusik.com! AND…
$100 donation to a “green” or “sustainable” charity of your choice from Kindermusik International.
Some award-winning efforts might include:
- Community Building. Maybe you started a class project or club, community garden, fundraiser, or volunteer activity that got five, ten—or a hundred people involved.
- Inventing. Musicians are also great innovators and inventors. Maybe you built a rain water retention system, using a barrel and gutter system, a compost bin, or a bird feeder.
- Activism. With the elections around the corner, maybe you’ve gone grassroots! Have you canvassed, given a speech, or stood up for an environmental cause you support?
Feeling inspired by our list? It’s not too late to START a project, and tell us what you’ll finish.
Contest Submissions extended to December 7, 2012.
Submit your story (video, pictures, writing, art, etc.) by posting on the Kindermusik Facebook page.
Do something great!
This entry came to us via our Kindermusik Cares Pinterest board
Our 2-year-old toddler helps us grow the kitchen garden, she works the soil with dad, plants the seeds with me, waters the little plants daily. She also composts! and already knows in which bin we put organic waste, so whenever se eats a banana, she takes the peel to the correct container. we are so proud 🙂
Hi, I want to nominate one of my Kindermusik Mums – Danielle Bain. Her two children Xavier and Jasmine are in my “Kindermusik for the Young Child”. Danielle and her family have been instrumental in establishing a group called “Muddy Boots and Sandy Hands”.
This group organises regular outings to the local natural environments for families and their young children, to encourage them to discover and appreciate nature and spend time playing OUTSIDE, getting dirty, building things, noticing animals and other creatures, which is so good for children! It also encourages children to value nature and take action to protect it.
Several other children from our Kindermusik classes have joined in these outings, which has had the added benefit of building strong friendships between our families. Danielle’s family also took part in “Clean up Australia Day”, helping out at a local site. More about “Muddy Boots and Sandy Hands” can be found at their facebook page here:
https://www.facebook.com/MuddyBootsAndSandyHands
Hi I am a Kindermusik Educator in Ireland and work with 2 other km teachers in my km business. We run km standalone classes and have integrated km ABC into our preschool curriculum. We have been awarded the Early Childhood Irelands 2012 Innovation Award for Environmental Awareness and also An Taisce ( Irelands Governing green body) Green Flag for Recycling and Waste Management. I can email on our winning project submission detailing all of the green work we do with the children and it would be great to have the school children recognised as KM Green Star Stewards as they do so much work in the garden ; recycling etc and with great support from all our parents
Denise Sheridan
Ulla Beag pre-school and Afterschool have won the award for Innovation in Environmental Awareness for introducing a green programme in their setting. Staff, parents and children all collaborated in recycling a wide variety of materials, some of which benefited their gardening and art activities. This was combined with composting and waste management programmes to reduce their total annual waste by 6,240 litres. Berries, vegetable and herbs, which the children planted and nurtured in the out-door space and by free-range eggs from their own hens, not only enhanced their diet but also promoted environmentally friendly skills for life