Get Composting Contest
Hey parents and readers,
Spring is in the air and Earth Day is just around the corner. Get into the eco-spirit by entering to WIN a See-Through Compost Container!
This composting tool is not only great for the environment, it’s educational! The See-Through Compost Container teaches decomposition, composting, life cycles and environmental education. Kids can view the entire decomposition process with ease with 3 clear, separate, aerated compartments!
Ready to enter? Just tell us something that can be composted for a chance to win!
Please leave your answer in the comments section below along with your first name!
Contest deadline: March 27, 2018
Prize courtesy of Educational Insights.
For full contest rules and regulations click here.
Good luck in the contest, everyone!
— Melissa, chickadeeblog@owlkids.com
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Our class favourite compost item are apple cores!
Apple cores, banana peels, and fruit and vegetable scraps
We conpost all veggies, fruits and eggies.
Paper
Fruit and vegetable scraps
Age 6
Egg shells, age 3
Egg shells can be composted! I would love this container to show the kids how composting works. Thanks for the chance to win! I keep meaning to start since we already garden
Vegetable Peelings
I love OWL.
My grandmother has subscribed me to receive copies since I was 5 years old.
I am now 11 1/2 years of age.
I would very much like to win the “see through composter”.
I love nature and the outdoors!
Page 2 of my email!
We compost vegetable and fruit skins!
Is this where we leave a comment to enter for the composting kit? I can’t seem to find a link to enter anywhere else. If so one thing we can compost is egg shells.
Banana peels!
Is this how we enter?
Yes it is! Thanks for your entry.
You can compost an apple core!
Banana peels!
Banana peel can be composted.
Veggies
Egg shells
Potato peels! -Isaac, age 5
Raw fruits and vegetables, garden waste (like leaves, and grass clippings), brown paper. Our red wigglers love yams!
We love to put the coffee grounds from single serve pods and then plant in the pod containers.
Banana and egg shells and oranges and apples cores.
Fruit seeds
Banana peels can be composted! Thank you!
We put fruit and veggie scraps into our compost bin 🙂
Egg Shells!
Alexandria age 8
Banana peels, paper towels, egg shells – Seth, age 7
You can compost fruit peels, like a banana!
Kleenex – Elowen, age 4
Eggshells
Vegetables
Fruits
Our class composts paper towels, fruit peels, any leftover food items from lunch or snack
Coffee filters and coffee grounds!
Take out wrappers (coffee cups, burger wraps and French fries containers) from different fast food restaurants , such as Timmies and A&W.
compost egg shells
Lots of things can be composted. Food, paper, leaves just to name a few.
We would love to have this in our classroom. Is there somewhere we can purchase it if we do not win?
Egg shells
Eggshells 🙂
We compost all the tea bags from the cups of tea my mom makes.
Trenton Age 7
Fruit and vegetable scraps, brown paper, egg shells, leaves and grass.
Tissues
Liam – Age 7
We compost my baby brother’s leftover food from his high chair! Along with tissues, peelings, paper towels, and egg shells!
-Arika, 6yo
Egg shells, coffee filters, paper towel, carrot peels
Eggshells 🙂
Eggshells
Compost old flowers (brown)!
Beet peels!
egg shells
Grass
Banana peels! This would be a great way to help encourage my grade 2 students to compost at home!
A pizza box
Banana peels
Banana Peels
grass clippings
Food scraps
fruit and vegetable skins
We compost everything our house( no backyard unfortunately only city): egg shells, egg cartons, fruit and vegetable scraps (after we have let the Hampster have his choice of goodies) coffee grounds, lawn clippings ( we have an electric lawn mower) etc.
My son loves gardening with me and we have been looking for new summer science projects to do. We try to reduce our carbon foot print as much as possible in our house.
Fruit scraps.
Our classroom worms LOVE apple cores!
Cuttings off of our fruits and vegetables like peels and rinds
Banana peels can be composted!
-Holly
Annie
Adding finished annual plants and perennial clippings can give you a lot
of material in the Fall.
My name is Jagger. Apple cores?. Thanks!
Banana peel
Bess age 6
Fruit and vegetable peels and scraps, poppa’s coffee grounds, tea bags.
Chewing gum! Liam, age 8
Orange peels, says Eoin, age 5
Hi
Egg shells and coffee grinds can be composted too!
Tea leaves, coffee grinds and fruit/veggie skins and peels.
Banana Peels and Apple Cores
Egg shells and apple cores
Compostable coffee pods or just coffee grounds
We compost All of our food scraps that are not meat or dairy! The meat and dairy go to the barn cats ?
We compost in our kindergarten classroom daily.
Banana peels and apple cores fill our bin the most!
The forgotten foods that were bought with good intentions hahah
egg shells
coffee and tea
strawberry cut offs!
Onion skins
Sebastian (4 years old), “We compost lots of things, like banana peels, cucumber ends, potato skin… all the bits we can’t eat off food!”
Maya (6) “We compost coffee grinds and onion skins. Our chickens help us to compost carrot peels and other vegetable scraps.”
Elliann (5) ” We compost all our fruit and veg scraps at home. We put meat and tissues in the town compost bin.”
Murdok, age 6, tea!
Maverik, age 2, coffee!
Leftover foods
Peeled vegetables and fruits wast
I used to buy chicken then owl , now I like sports magazines
Coffee grounds
Kleenex
some bags (not all though) can be composted
Coffee Grounds, Tea Bags and Fruit Peels can all be composted.
Egg shells
Coffee grounds and filters can be composted.
banana peels can be composted
used paper napkins can be composted
used paper napkins and apple coars can be composted
Eggshells.
Banana Peels
William Age 5
leftover foods
Eleanor Age 7
Toilet paper tubes
Eve- Age 4
scraps of food
parts of the pear you don’t eat
Sadie – age 5
Bananas! We eat 3-4 bushels of bananas a week and love to find out more about the break down of it
In our kitchen, we composted all the left over vegetables, fruits and egg shells which would be put in the big composting bin in our backyard. In spring time, my dad will put the composting things in the garden which will let the plants grow well.
I am 8.
Banana peels can be composted. Milan, age 3.
Banana peels and unfinished dinner
Bryce (4)
This is SO cool! We compost lots of things, like apple cores and banana peels. ~Finley, age 8
thats what I said
fruit veggies
We compost all our fruit peelings, and skins from veggies.
Leaves and weeds
Egg shells, veggie scraps, coffee grounds etc.
Id love one of these for my classroom!
Leaves, fruit peelings, and vegetable peelings all can be composted.
We compost our pumpkins after Halloween
Blaire 5
Veggie peeling and dryer lint
Egg shells
Lots of comments for egg shells – we use egg shells to regulate the pH in our worm farm! We add lots of fruit and veggie scraps to ours for compost: tops of tomatoes and peppers, lettuce, the ends of beans or bok choy, apple cores and banana peels… The list goes on!
Bananas, Eva 5
Coffe grinds & filter, hair, nails, tea bags, fruit peaks and cores, spoiled food
Egg shells
Egg shells
Egg shells
Egg shells
coffee grounds, any fruit peels, and veggie scraps