Children at Grannies House Nursery School in Blairgowrie got their hands dirty for a good cause, marking Earth Day with a lively celebration of all things environmental.

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The event, led by principal Thandolwenkosi Ncube and her staff, focused on giving children practical ways to show they care for the world around them, from picking up litter to growing plants and not wasting water.

“Today, we are celebrating our Earth Day,” said Ncube. “We are teaching kids how to clean our earth, how to grow plants, not to litter, and not to waste water.”

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The morning’s standout activity saw pupils transform discarded egg trays into bright paper flowers. Children cut the trays into sections, painted them, and fixed small branches through the middle as stems, proof that rubbish can become something beautiful with a little creativity. “We didn’t waste anything. We used the small branches and the egg trays, and the kids painted their earth using their hands.”

The exercise drove home a simple but powerful message: Recycling does not require special materials. Sometimes it just means taking a second look at what you are about to throw away. Pupils also walked the school grounds collecting scraps of paper, learning that keeping their environment clean is everyone’s responsibility. “Kids were picking up papers from the ground to make it clean, so that they know that next time, if you throw something on the ground, you have to pick it up, and if you see any paper outside on the street, you have to pick it up to make our earth clean.”

It was a small celebration with a lasting lesson: That a love for the earth is best planted early.

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