Clean Up

By Jared Treadway

I take them out on the playground and collect trash in one bag and recyclables in the other. There's some grumbling and goofing off, but we also get a cleaner playground.

Materials: trash bags

Service Day

By Tom Gullett

Every Thursday, I take my advisory students and we go out into the building and clean up. They sweep the stairs, clean teachers' white boards, pick up garbage off the playground, pick up the halls, clean windows, do projects for Lonnie when he needs help, clean the tops of lockers, etc.

The guys don't complain at all, they know it's Thursday and they know they have a job to do. I would suggest that you assign jobs that rotate every week, because obviously some jobs are coveted more than others. :)

Materials: cleaning supplies

Recycling Team

By Julie Dietrich

We "wrap" copy paper boxes and label them, then drop them off in teacher classrooms. Then, once a week, we collect the boxes and take them to the paper recycling dumpster outside. We have 8 advisories participating in the team and different groups collect paper on different days (M/H).

Great! The more organized and regimented it is, the more the kids are able to "own" the responsibility. The kids like getting "out of the classroom" and into the hallways. They liked being in charge of the recycling process.

Materials: Boxes, paper, labels, tape

Hair Ties

By Allison Morton

We made hair ties for the kids in Mexico. To make them:

1. Cut 1X5 inch strips of coordinating material (about 6).
   
2. Take one strip and knot onto hair tie with knot falling into middle.
   
3. Continue tying remainder until hair tie is full all the way around.

The girls enjoyed it!

Materials: ribbons, material, hair ties