Kindred Gifts' Blog

Sharing ecological tasks with your kids will help them to understand the impact they are having on the environment, as well as bringing you all together as a family.

Look at all of the rubbish that your family throw away each day. Did you know that on average more than 400 kilograms of waste is produced by each Australian household every year? Scary, huh?

So why not build a multi-coloured recycle station in your back yard to make recycling more fun for the family? Or develop a competition between family members which rewards the use of the recycle bin? Think about ways that you can encourage the whole family to reuse and recycle all those things around the home which can quickly add up to a whole lot of landfill.

Another terrific way to encourage the kids to recycle, while also encouraging their creativity AND keeping them busy on those rainy days, is the fantastic Makedo craft kits for kids. Starting from just $14.95, Makedo kits are about sustainability, imagination, creativity, community and play - but most of all fun! Using the materials around them, kids enjoy the open ended possibilities as their playful creativity is set free.

The Makedo founders believe that by encouraging people to use their imagination and see the creative possibilities in the things around them, we not only reveal a boundless source of creative play but plant the seed for a new way of seeing and thinking about this world we share. They want people to see and inject new value into things that might otherwise be regarded as waste. Their aim is to encourage people to use their imagination and see the creative possibilities in the reuse of everyday materials around them. Through this process we can begin to redefine what’s considered waste.