Do you play outdoors with your kids and talk about the animals that live in forests? We try to connect the bird nesting in the treetop with good reasons not to litter. When we play guessing games like, "where does this animal live?" we try to learn new words like "habitat." It seemed like an easy lesson to make our own recycled paper and talk about saving trees.
Then, I tried looking up the statistics on how many sheets of paper can be made from one tree. According to various industry and ecology experts, the figure is as high as 90,000 sheets of paper that one tree can produce. When we consider that it's way more paper than the average family could use in a year, maybe one tree isn't such a big sacrifice? Or is it?