Things To Do If You Are In Quarantine

Oh my, this is really a game changer.

Now that social distance and distance learning are the buzz words of the day. 

If you are housebound with cabin fever and in quarantine during this social distancing due to Coronavirus,  COVID-19 pandemic, here are some ideas for you and your family! 

• Play board games. Fun for you! And perfect if you have kids!
• Play yard games: Check this link out, 16 Classic yard games You can play with kids.
• Go to the museum. How? There are 12 famous museums you can tour online!
• Go for an adventure: Take a ride and pack a picnic! You won't be eating out and picnics are fun. Pack some goodies.
• Nature Journal Get outside or learn inside in books. Learn about nature, document it, draw it, write about it! Get our free Nature Diary.
• Craft! Try a new craft or do an old one. Always wanted to learn the camera? Knit? Paint? Learn Calligraphy? Craft with kids, too!
• Take a Class.  Online Education is available all over the internet. Check the major Colleges links.
• Watch Videos.  A Movie you wanted to see?  How about some educational videos online. Both are available from your local library online sources...free access to places like Overdrive and Hoopla.
• Clean. How about Spring cleaning early?
• Write: Been wanting to write more Poems or Start that book?
• Catch up on reading. Try your local library online sources
• Cook! How many recipes have you saved that you thought might be delicious!
• Start a new house project.  Been wanting to paint the bedroom? Re-arrange the Playroom? 
• Learn about Earth, Get ready for Earthday on Planetpals.com.
• Get some Educational Activities on Teachers Pay Teachers or Amped Up Learning 
• Take this time to contact old friends, family and make memories with your own.

Whatever you do, be safe, be squeaky clean and use diligence.

Stay Healthy Pals!

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Wondering What Christmas Wraps Can You Recycle?

Share this handy list of giftwrap items that you are unable to recycle:
Keep these out of the bin!  

We have an idea, try to recycle them by reusing them. Be creative!

Thanks Planetpals!

Happy Holidays Inclusive Activities For The Classroom

Exclusively Inclusive!

Life skills for a better world all wrapped up in holiday activities! 

Whether you are a homeschooler or a classroom teacher, you will love these new activities for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and More. 

Planetpals NO PREP activities are not only clever and fun but unqiue! Kids learn life skills. One of a kind for Kindness, Inclusiveness, ways to a better world. Classroom, homeschool or home. 

Check out what's new! 

Here are three of our newest for the Holiday Sesaon.

A lesson on a world of holidays

A Star of an activity

Tick Tock It's Time for Kindness

Smash It, Don't Trash it! Pumpkin Recycle

It's A Pumpkin Palooza That's A Howl!

There are many ways to recycle pumpkins.  This is one of our favorites.

Pumpkin Smash? No, we don't mean smash your neighbor's pumpkins for Halloween!  We are talking about an after Halloween pumpkin smash that ends up in a great big compost pile.

Your town doesn't have one?  Why not organize a pumpkin smash in your town just like the recent Pumpkin Smash in Newton, MA?  So simple and it all goes to a good cause!

If you are not composting yourself, here is a fun way to compost that will entertain the kids and extend the Halloween season. Smash for a reason.

It's a win win.

See what a smashing time our friends Alexis and Max had when they attended the Pumpkin Smash. Here are their photos!

Smashing Pumpkin Recycle Event Newton, MA

Everyone having a smashing time!

Alexis and Max All done!

How to Recycle Pumpkins After the Holidays

Halloween and Thanksgiving are over, what are the best ideas on Earth for recycling pumpkins?

The Greatest list for Earth Saving Ideas to reduce and reuse pumpkins:

• Eat them! Pumpkins are high in Vitamin E and A and Fiber so make a healthy Pumpkin recipe...Yum.
• Eat the seeds, dry them. Another Yum!
• Compost them in your garden compost
• Give them away. Offer them to a neighbor or friend w a compost bin  (if you don't have one).

  

  Planet them.  Kids can watch them grow!

• Bring them to a farm that has animals that eat them. Did you know cows & cattle love pumpkins? Do call or ask first if they accept them. 
• Plant Them. Cut each top off, so that the pumpkin looks like a plant pot. Fill it with dirt. Then watch the seeds grow into new pumpkin seedlings!
• Recycle them! Every town is different so double check the rules.
• Smash them! Bring them to a pumpkin smashing in your town

NOTE: Don't leave them to degrade outside if you don't want mice, moles, squirrels, chipmunks, rabbits or woodchucks coming to your yard. They love them!

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