Giving Guidance and Teaching Good Lessons

Looking for anti-littering and recycling activities for kids? No one is born a litterer. A bad habit such as littering is taught and learned. But by engaging children and youth in anti-littering behaviors and activities, we can reinforce good habits and involve youth in their community's overall improvement.

Keep Arkansas Beautiful has a variety of kids' environmental recycling projects available to captivate youth's interest in litter abatement, recycling and waste reduction, and scenic beautification. From a musical production to a "beauty" pageant to various classroom curricula, fascinating youth with science, nature and the environment is easier with educational resources from Keep Arkansas Beautiful!

Butterfly Gardening

A butterfly garden is the perfect outdoor teaching lab, where the learning possibilities are as vast as your and your students' imaginations. In a butterfly garden, students have real-life experiences with nature and the environment to learn about science and natural history, environmental stewardship and conservation.

The BUTTanical Garden

The BUTTanical Garden is a plot full of the state's most frequently planted perennial - the cigarette butt. The BUTTanical Garden is a dramatic demonstration of the harmful effects of cigarette litter on our communities. Debuted in 2003 at the Arkansas State Flower and Garden Show, the garden is a creative use of flowerbeds designed to demonstrate the unsightly effects of cigarette litter.

Clean Getaway

Perfect for junior high and high school students, Clean Getaway is an original musical that deals with the serious issues of litter and recycling in a lighthearted, entertaining manner that is appropriate for performers and audiences of all ages. Produce this musical for your next school assembly today!

Take It Back

Recycling for kids can be fun! "Take It Back" is a karaoke-style sing-along jingle that encourages students to "Do your part, make it right and keep it up" to prevent litter, encourage recycling and promote scenic beautification. Keeping The Natural State natural is "a cycle with no end" … and fun for all ages!

Trashy Style Show

It was described by passers-by as "shocking." "They shouldn't have done that," one man was overheard saying. "How can they get away with it?" a woman gasped. The Trashy Style Show is a unique fashion show where your "models" of choice (teachers, students, parents, etc.) don coats covered in the state's most prevalent forms of litter. The dramatic message of the Trashy Style Show is that The Natural State's distinctive beauty is carelessly "coated" in litter.

Classroom Resources

From field trips to interactive activities to curricula developed by Keep America Beautiful, many classroom resources are available to teach and engage youth in positive environmental habits.

Would you like to learn how to create a butterfly garden? Here you will find useful information on butterfly habitats and plants that attract butterflies.

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