The educational community of Nyitnikék Tagóvoda considers it a priority task to educate people about and protect the environment. Environmental awareness education is present in the everyday lives of our kindergarteners (don’t overbuy, selective waste collection, composting, water and energy saving, etc.). During the programs that build on the experiences related to the important days, we also reinforce in children, and through them in adults, that the Earth’s treasures must be treated sparingly.
When organizing the European Waste Reduction Week, we strive to involve the parent community in as many ways as possible. With the planned programs and actions, we intend to strengthen and expand the family-kindergarten relationship with new elements and content, as well as to support the formation of environmentally friendly behavior and education for sustainability.

Program of the week

During the week, we organize several child-friendly programs highlighting the importance of selective waste collection.
Goal: To promote selective waste collection, to show children that “not all garbage is garbage”, recycling, and to encourage reuse and repair.
To learn about the types and methods of e-waste collection in a playful way, through playful tasks (puzzles, sorting and board games), and through storytelling.
Target group: children, internal staff and parents.

1. Preparation – Making and placing communication tools and posters. Decorating the institution, installing/renewing existing selective collection islands, organizing an interactive corner with playful tasks. Location: kindergarten foyer, long corridor, notice boards, locker room of each group.

2. Interactive storytelling performance “The Forest Selective Party and the Day of the Second Chance” performed by kindergarten teachers.
Performance date: November 24, 2025, starting at 11:00 a.m.
Objective: The story and the related sorting/selecting game introduce and consolidate knowledge and concepts (selective waste, e-waste, hazardous waste, electrical appliances, recycling, reuse, repair, surplus donation).
Method: storytelling, sorting game Helps in learning how to properly collect selective waste and understand the importance of recycling.

3. Do crafts selectively with us!
DIY from selective waste – groups’ own schedule, according to their choice of topic (Topic: Winter holiday circle – Advent, Santa Claus, Christmas).
Objective. To develop environmentally conscious behavior. Get to know and practice new techniques that are interesting to them, and gain experience about the possibilities of recycling while doing crafts.

4. Visit to a waste yard
Objective: To encourage selective waste collection, better collection, treatment and recycling of electrical and electronic equipment. Hazardous waste management.
During the on-site visit, large groups of children can discover the essence of recycling themselves and gain insight into the processes. The experience helps to understand the process.
Date of the visit – 2025. 11. 24. Bear group 18 people; 2025. 11. 25. Bee group 8 people and Cricket group 11 people. The Süni ZOO large group participated in this program in connection with World Cleanup Day.
Location: FKF Waste Yard, Attitude-Shaping and Reuse Center -1186 Budapest, Besence utca 1/A.

5. Interactive corner – Play with me!
Organizing playful tasks, especially recycling, selective collection and composting related games (social, memory sorting, sorting).
Goal: Our children should gain knowledge about the basics of selective waste collection and biowaste grouping through playful tasks in interactive corners established at existing selective collection islands, and practice them.
Parental attitude formation.
Kindergarten groups between 2024.11.24 – 2025. 11. 28, in the afternoons with parents

6. In the footsteps of paper!
Paper making in the past and today! The raw materials of paper. Making recycled paper from egg cartons, with paper dipping.
Goal: Helps in learning how to properly collect waste and understand the importance of recycling
Location, Maci Group Terrace 2025. 11. 27. and 28. between 9.30-11.00 am. Responsible Ildikó Hájas

7. “A week dedicated to reuse!” – Organization of environmental protection actions, 2025.11. 22. to -11.30 am

* Organization of waste collection action We organize battery collection among parents. The kindergarten will take care of the removal of the batteries.
Goal: Management of e-waste, hazardous waste, especially battery collection.

* – “Csere-Bere” clothes, toys – primarily children’s clothing.
Goal: Popularizing reuse, highlighting its importance by donating.

Collection of donations, reusable items, toys, clothes – November 17 – November 25, 2025 – all groups. The kindergarten will take care of the removal of accumulated items, leftover clothes, and toys.

Evaluation of the result: Based on the number of participants, the number of reused products, and the amount of waste prevented in this way.

The entire educational community participates in the preparation, organization, and implementation of the programs.

Contributing teachers:

Zsuzsanna Finé Tatarek, member institution director
Ildikó Hájas, program manager, contact person
Brigitta Vörös-Ballai
Judit Kovács
Karolina Dubainé
János Kereszti
Beáta Sándor
Edina Huszár-Sisák
Gabriella Szalóki
Lászlóné Teveli
Márta Dori
Réka Szabó-Makai
Zsuzsanna Szekerkáné Ondok