Kicking off Earth day!

Helping my son understand how to love the Earth and take care of it has been fun today!  First we considered how much stuff he had.  He is an acquisitive little guy, so we talked about reusing as a focus because reducing seems really hard for him as far as possessions go.
 Then the real fun began, we collected cans from his grandmother's house and brought them to the scrap yard.  He was most impressed with the crusher, and glad we had parked in the parking lot so that no one accidentally crushed our car :)
Next we went to our adopted ephemeral wetland, picked up trash and cataloged various tadpoles, salamander larvae, and frogs.  Wow there were a lot of scary alien looking bugs too!