Trading Post

Toys, Games and Book Trading Post

Help the Grade 1/2 students celebrate Earth Day by donating old toys, games or books for our first ever Earth Day Trading Post!

We hope this initiative will help kids understand:  

• "Stuff" contributes to pollution through manufacturing, transportation and garbage. 
• Helping the Earth doesn't mean we need to stop having the things that we like but it means we can be more thoughtful about what we want and buy. 
• By trading for new toys, games and books we Reduce the amount of things we buy and we keep items out of the landfill!!

Have your child bring in any clean, unwanted toys, games or books between April 16th-18th. No soft toys please. The items should be things you do not want back. All items should be in good condition and not missing parts. 

We will use these items to make a "Trading Post" on April 19th. Each student that brings in an item will have a chance to choose one 'new to me' item from the trading post.  Any items left at the end of the day will be donated to the Goodwill.

Some links for parents on this topic:

Ted Talk: 5 minutes - A bit of an extreme take on living with less but still interesting.

https://www.ted.com/talks/graham_hill_less_stuff_more_happiness#t-312550https://www.ted.com/talks/graham_hill_less_stuff_more_happiness#t-312550

Ikea Commercial: 1 mintue - (I know a commercial from Ikea about buying less is ironic - but it's still a good commercial!!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=EQ3ePGr8Q7khttps://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=EQ3ePGr8Q7k

Zero Waste Family: 14 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSUmo-40pqAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSUmo-40pqA

Thank you for your support and happy Earth Day!