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Library event teaches children about recycling
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Neighbors | Shaiyla Hakeem .Canfield mothers helped their children make a fish with recycled materials at the library during a Green Team activity. They learned how waste harms marine life.
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Neighbors | Shaiyla Hakeem .Canfield's Hannah Daily (left) and Canfield's Kayla Wine worked on a recycling project at the library July 14. A Mahoning County Green Team representative led the group in the craft activity.
Canfield library was filled with schools of fish created by eco-friendly children who wanted to learn about preserving the environment.
The library sponsored a program from the Mahoning County Green Team and Youngstown Litter Control July 14 for students entering kindergarten through fifth grade. It focused primarily on littering and how it harms the environment.
Green Team Educator Peg Flynn hosted the event and talked to the children about how trash and careless acts affect marine life. She opened the program by discussing the current oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico followed by reading of the book “One Less Fish.”
As a craft activity, kids made fish from old CDs and scrap paper. Flynn led the group step-by-step on how to construct the fish. The fish, made of recycled materials, was intended to remind children to always recycle and never litter.