1. Connect & Combine
Recycle-A-thon!
Crash Creativy Course
Yoleidy Carvajal
@yoleidycarvajal

2. For this assignment we had to create a sport
using two household items…
Combine trash +
containers and you
get:
Recycle-A-thon!

3. Why play Recycle-A-thon?
• I don’t think I should explain why we should recycle,
right?
• Then, let’s be honest… most people don’t enjoy taking
out the trash; they enjoy even less having to separe their
trash mostly because the majority of us have not learned
about recycling until a few years ago. A new habit takes
time to sink in but what about our kids?
• If we teach them to recycle by playing a game (or a
sport) then it will become an habit to them.

4. What do you need to play Recycle-A-thon?
• 5 containers one for each
“type” of trash: yellow, gray,
blue, green and brown.
• Trash: balls made of paper,
glass and plastic bottles,
organic bags with organic
trash and a bag with non-
recyclable trash.
• A group of competitive
children.

5. How to play Recycle-A-thon?
• Draw a circle in an open
space. The player and the
trash will be placed in the
center.
• Each container is placed
around the circle. For
smaller kids identify each
container with a picture of
the type of trash they should
place inside it.

6. How to play Recycle-A-thon?
• Use a stopwatch to determine how
long each kid takes to place the
right type of trash into the right
container.
• When the time starts, each child
will either run from the circle to
each container carrying as many
items as they can hold or they can
throw the trash to the container
from the circle.
• The Recycle-A-thon finishes when
the last item has been put in the
container.

7. Who wins Recycle-A-thon?
• The child that manages to
place the largest amount
of items into the right
containers.
• The child that places all
the items in the
containers faster.
• However, if they learn to
recycle we all win!

8. The End
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