“Thinking green in our neighborhood” was the theme for the last semester of Sunday Dhamma School. In line with the theme, we had a gotong-royong at section 7. Our mission was to clean the whole playground. To make it fun, we turned the gotong royong into a treasure hunt, a hunt for recyclable items and rubbish. After having this idea, we made Melvin, a teenager, the master mind behind the whole event and he made it seem like “Amazing Race”.
Children were divided into several groups and each group would have to run to a “check point” and answer certain questions or do certain thing that the persons in charged require them to do. They had to pick some recyclable items and throw them into the respective recycle bin to complete their task.
The children were all very excited and tried their best to be the winner. In no time, the park was clean! The children even had a chance to catch some fishes (paper fishes laminated with magnets on them) with fishing rods (a stick with magnet) from a pond (children’s swimming pool) full of rubbish.
Well, the children definitely learnt a lot about recycling and team spirit. At the same time, through the questions asked and activities done in each “check point”, they recall about global warming, recycling and the dhamma.
Children were divided into several groups and each group would have to run to a “check point” and answer certain questions or do certain thing that the persons in charged require them to do. They had to pick some recyclable items and throw them into the respective recycle bin to complete their task.
The children were all very excited and tried their best to be the winner. In no time, the park was clean! The children even had a chance to catch some fishes (paper fishes laminated with magnets on them) with fishing rods (a stick with magnet) from a pond (children’s swimming pool) full of rubbish.
Well, the children definitely learnt a lot about recycling and team spirit. At the same time, through the questions asked and activities done in each “check point”, they recall about global warming, recycling and the dhamma.
