Roll items or throw items towards a line to see who can fly the furthest.Whilst playing in the bath or playing with simple toys, put them in order.

Are there alternatives to plastic bath toys? Can we use rubber? Recycled plastic?

Do a household census – what things in your house are made of plastic? Categorize the plastic into single use, long term use, recyclable and waste.

Check out these great ideas to think about what we put down the drain :.

Does plastic breakdown? Try your own experiment by burying food scraps and plastic – see which one breaks down first.

Read this story about a real life rubber duck catastrophy:.

Look for images of animals who have been tangled up or hav e eaten plastic (also see my book Seagull to link in with this theme.).

What might happen to each of the rubber ducks?.

Look at the diet of sea animals – does plastic fall into this?.

So what can you do to ignite care for what we consume? The story explores different sea creatures and the change from morning to night.īut I think it opens parents and teachers up to the problem – what happens when things fall into the sea that don’t belong there? The pictures are vibrant and the words are easy to listen to telling a joyful story of the journey of 10 rubber ducks on their way from a factory to faraway countries.Ĭhildren can learn how to count from 1- 10 but also how to count in ordinal numbers. Hmmmm….so this really isn’t an environmental book when you pick it up but it made me think a lot about products that we use regularly that will take years and years to break down, and even then the compounds they were made up of will still exist – changing the soil or water they break down in forever.ġ0 little rubber ducks is a sweet book as many of Eric Carle’s books are.

Eric carle 10 rubber ducks