Recycling

Resource kits

Educational resource kits for early years through to upper primary, available to borrow from our Onkaparinga libraries.

Early years - middle primary 

  • The adventures of an aluminum can: a story about recycling by Alison Inches
  • The adventures of a plastic bottle: a story about recycling by Alison Inches
  • Garbage trucks by Marv Alinas
  • In the bin by Kellie Bollard
  • Michael Recycle by Ellie Bethel
  • Plastic (From trash to treasure) by Daniel Nunn
  • Rally for recycling by Lisa Bullard
  • See inside waste & recycling by Alex Frith
  • The Three R'S: Reuse, Reduce, Recycle by Nuria Roca
  • Trash magic: a book about recycling a plastic bottle by Angie LePetit
  • We are extremely very good recyclers by Lauren Child
  • Why should I recycle? by Jen Green
  • Stuff! Making sustainable choices at home [CD-ROM] by KESAB Environmental Solutions

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Middle - upper primary

  • Engineering an awesome Recycling Centre with Max Axiom (Graphic novel) by Nicole Brooks Bethea
  • How effective is recycling? by Catherine Chambers
  • How recycling works by Geoff Barker
  • Recycling (green kids) by Neil Morris
  • Reducing and recycling waste by Jen Green
  • Rubbish and Recycling: step by step by Gerard Bertolini & Claire Delelande
  • Trash to treasure: A Kid's Upcycling Guide to Crafts by Pam Scheunemann
  • What happens when we recycle food and garden waste by Jillian Powell
  • What happens when we recycle glass by Jillian Powell
  • What happens when we recycle metal by Jillian Powell
  • What happens when we recycle paper by Jillian Powell
  • What happens when we recycle plastic by Jillian Powell
  • Why should I recycle?  by Susan Meredith

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Educational games

We offer a selection of games and resources to support educational play, focussing on recycling, waste minimisation and sustainability.

Available from the Aberfoyle Park, Seaford or Woodcroft toy libraries, these resources are available for City of Onkaparinga residents and educational organisations.

Please note: no reservations are available for these resources.

Earthopoly

Ages 8+

An eco-friendly version of Monopoly. All the paper is recyclable. The ink is vegetable oil-based ink. The game pieces are either made by nature or completely recyclable.

The game uses carbon credits, clean air and recycling incentives to increase property values. The tokens include the following: a lima bean, a piece of corn, a piece of crystal from Arkansas, a walnut pyramid, a bamboo ring, a shell and a Carnelian stone.

Eco Bingo Bears

Ages 3+

RRR! The new three R's! A fun bingo game where Eco Bear teaches children to reduce, reuse, recycle. Ideal for encouraging children to be more eco aware and put into practice tips picked up along the way.

Eco Game

Age 3+

A fun board game to make children aware of environmental issues. As players move around the board, they learn about the ecosystem and explore water, energy and waste cycles.

The game identifies ways to reduce energy consumption, recycle waste and conserve water. Cause and effect and the impact these have on the environment are examined.

ECO Squad and R-Eco

Age 8+

In Eco Squad, players are confronted with environmental challenges in homes, cities and factories. By playing cards from their hands, they can implement solutions to these situations.

R-Eco: A local city has a problem of un-separated trash left by citizens. Each player is a company that does the trash separation and recycling. By carrying trash to corresponding storage places, a player gets points. However if you carry too much, you must throw trash away illegally! Well, after all, your aim is to get money...

Eco Town

Age 3+

Build your own ecological-friendly town with houses, trees, bicycles, recycle bin and rainwater tanks that teach young ones to care for the environment and promotes environmental awareness.

The town on each playing board can be joined together in many different ways for more creative play.

The perfect dice game to encourage little green kids to learn to save our environment.

Mission Earth

Age 7+

"Join the Earth Heroes on a quest to save the planet!"

It is time for kids to take charge and rescue Earth, which has been ruined by adults. The players are time travelling heroes who must make their way back to Earth from 2259AD and save it from destruction.

The game includes a Team Play option where co-operation is essential, instead of playing as individuals. There is no waste in the game - the box becomes the board, all the components are made from recycled materials.

Produced by a team of high school students as part of Young Enterprise.

Recycle Twist

Don't get in a twist about recycling! Spin the spinner and make your move. However, you can only make a move if you can tell what goes in which bin. The last person standing wins.

Recycling Memo game

Age 3+

An excellent game for teaching children about which things from your household waste can be recycled.  Great for learning how to take turns, promotes memory skills and concentration.

Ideal for early numeracy skills.  It doesn’t have to be played as a game, can be used for imaginative play time with the little trucks and houses.

Recycling Snakes and ladders

It's the classic Snakes and Ladders with a twist. If you recycle right you'll find an easy shortcut, but you'd better watch out that you don't get dumped by the rubbish trucks!

Playmat is 3x3m

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Age 7+

Children will learn how to care for the planet as they race around the game board, picking up tips and rewards for "green" behaviour.

Respect the Earth flashcards

Age 5 +

Respect the Earth flashcards offer practical ways to exercise environmental responsibility, while introducing the general themes of “reduce, reuse, recycle”.

Parents and teachers should encourage questions and help research more detailed answers than are offered on the cards.

Ten Green Bottles

Ages 3+

If one green bottle should accidentally fall....

Be the first to match your ten green bottle cards with ten dotty numbered cards to win this fun bottle recycling game.

The Three R's

How well do you know the Three R's: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle? Roll the dice and move forward. The first one to the final square wins, but watch out for those tricky quiz squares along the way!

For younger players change the quiz squares to a roll-again option.
Playmat is 3x3m

Equipment

Educational resource kits for early years through to upper primary, available to borrow from our Onkaparinga libraries.

Paper beads (recycled paper bead maker) class set

The Recycled Paper Beads kit teaches the value of recycling in a hands-on way. Simply insert strips of paper into the tool and turn the handle to create decorative paper beads.

The paper bead tool fits most plastic bottle designs (for storing beads as they're made). 

The class set includes 15 bead-making units.

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Papermaking class set

Recycle used school or household paper into handmade paper with our easy to use papermaking kits.

The class set includes three sets/papermaking kits.

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Sustainable choices

Early years - middle primary

  • Be an ECO hero at home by Susan Barraclough
  • Be an ECO hero at school by Susan Barraclough
  • How to help the Earth (by the Lorax) by Trish Rabe
  • Look after your planet (Charlie & Lola) by Lauren Child
  • Look out for litter by Lisa Bullard
  • The Lorax by Dr Seuss
  • Michael Recycle meets Litterbug Doug by Ellie Bethel
  • Need it or want it? by Colleen Hord
  • Why should I protect nature? by Jen Green
  • Look after your planet (Charlie & Lola) [DVD]
  • Dirtgirl: Dig the Earth [DVD]
  • The environment: promoting sustainability Ages 6-8 [Teacher resource] by Amelia Ruscoe & Naomi Budden

Middle - upper primary

  • 101 ways to save the planet by Deborah Underwood OR 101 ways you can help save the planet before you're 12!
  • Be the change for the environment by Paula Smith
  • The environment by M Allaby
  • Environment infographics by Chris Oxlade
  • Green homes by Saranne Taylor
  • The green mother goose: saving the world one rhyme at a time by Jan Peck & David Davis
  • How carbon footprints work by Nick Hunter
  • Human footprint: everything you will eat, use, wear, buy, & throw out in your lifetime by Ellen Kirk
  • Nature crafts for Aussie Kids by Kate Hubmayer
  • Not your typical book about the environment by Elin Kelsey
  • Planet in peril: with tons of Earth-saving tips (Horrible Geography) by Anita Ganeri
  • What happens when we recycle water by Jillian Powell
  • Why should I bother about the planet? by Sue Meredith
  • The Lorax [DVD]