Hello Everyone!
This is 2025 Kid Governor’s Cabinet Member Nava Ekstrand!
In April, during our Kid Governor’s Cabinet Meeting, we decorated trash/recycle bins to support my third platform point: Invite 5th graders to decorate trash and recycling bins to promote a clean school environment. After we all decorated our own bins and ended the meeting, we brought them to our schools to help make them cleaner!
While all of us decorated the same bins, we came up with many different designs! I put positive messages on my bin like “Help clean the environment!”, Kid Governor Keudy put basketballs on his to make it more fun for kids to dunk their garbage or recycling into the “net”, and Dawson made his bin a monster to “eat” the trash/recycling. All these designs made it more fun to throw trash/recycling away!
You can make a bin for your classroom or home, too! If you make a bin, please send me an email about it at Nava@CT.KidGovernor.org.
Your Friend,
Nava