Activities
All on board
Set up a nature board with green news, snippets, pictures and interactive section.
Greentalk
Invite a speaker from BirdLife to give kids a talk on nature.
On reserve
Visit the Ghadira and Is-Simar Nature Reserves.
Join the club
Enrol kids in BirdLife’s junior club, Klabb Huttaf.
Robin roundup
Read a robin story and get kids to love robins; make robin pompoms.
Green Christmas
Make your own decorations from re-used material.
The Walking bus
Get kids to school on a walk-route and cut down on car fumes.
Power cut
Do a survey of light fixtures and learn about energy-savers.
Paper saver
Learn about paper-making and get kids to join the paper-reducing bandwagon.
(Click here to download the presentation.)
Wasting away
Set up recycling bins at school and in classes.
Let it rot
Set up and use a compost bin.
Picture it
Create a nature photo album or competition.
Junior journalist
Get kids to do a survey on attitudes to hunting.
Trees are cool
Learn about the value of trees.
Help us grow
Foster a tree at Foresta 2000.
The Green knight
Award a kid per term for green initiative.
Media attack
Use the media to show what you’re doing in Dinja Wahda.
Four friends
Make bookmarks with animal themes.
Out of Africa
Have swallows “migrate” across your class in spring.
Walk for nature
Get your kids to join in Klabb Huttaf’s annual junior marathon walk.
Dear Minister
Kids write to the environment minister about their green concerns.
Homework!
Kids do a survey on green attitudes and their effects.
Home sweet home
Build and set up nest boxes in your school.
Let’s do the tables
Put out food for birds and attract them to your grounds.
Flower detectives
Learn about four common Maltese flowers.
(Click here to download drawings of flowers.)
The Wall
Discover rubble walls as natural homes.
I promise
While colouring in, kids get to promise not to hurt lizards.
Nature day
A day full of green activities in your school.
Caring community
Rope in the school community to sponsor your green initiatives.
Up to you
A green activity of your choice.