Tips and tricks for the Festive Season

Parents, we all know your least favourite sound is “Muuuum I’m bored” so here’s a way to solve it. 

Get a blank piece of paper and ask your kids to paint a picture. The catch is, you're going to use it as wrapping paper, a more sustainable way to wrap a present.

An alternate option for this is getting any fruit or potato. Cut it in half, with this, make a pattern in the fruit and apply paint on the fruit, and there you have it, a trusty stamp. Now you don’t have to buy a stamp that your child will only use once, and you've just put one less piece of plastic in the ocean.

If you don’t want to buy a random $50 stuffed animal, a way to make an inexpensive gift is by finding old materials around your house and putting it together to make a new and unique toy that only your special person can have.

If you want to get rid of something in your house, use the tradition of Indian giving. Indian giving is where you give someone a gift, they do something with your gift and return it to you with a new special thing added to it. For example giving them a blank canvas and then

 they can paint on it and re-gift it to you.

Thanks for listening and we hope you enjoy and find these tips useful.

By Lily and Charlotte, both from the Sustainably team.