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💡Skills: Fitting trash into a garbage truck helps your child practice basic geometry skills. Sorting trash and recycling items is a great way to help our Earth!
PAW Patrol’s Rocky knows that sanitation workers are the Earth Heroes who pick up garbage and recycling from homes and stores. Play a math estimation game to see if you can help the sanitation workers fit more into the truck!
☑ Truck or box
☑ Scissors
☑ Tape
☑ Crayons, markers, or pencils
Here’s how to explain this activity to your child:
Pro Tip:
If your little recycler needs a challenge, work together to create a recycling center in your home with space for glass, metal, plastic, and paper. Talk about how recycling works and how it’s different from trash. If this activity is a little too hard, use a bag to pick up pieces of paper to recycle from around home. How many pieces of paper can you collect?
Read “I Stink” by Kate & Jim McMullan to learn about a spunky garbage truck, create your own Rocky vehicle, and learn about composting with the help of Rocky!
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