Activity Information
Instructions:
Have a look at the list of activities below and choose some boxes to start your adventure. Try to collect as many points as you can! The activities are worth different amounts of points so try out a variety of coloured boxes.
Once you have completed some activities, jump onto our Competition Page to see how to submit your works to win a prize!
Identify the most wasted foods in YOUR household
Watch videos and draw one of the things you learnt, or something you know your household wastes
Print out this colour-in document of the 10 most wasted foods in Australian households, and learn more along the way
Take a before photo of some commonly wasted fruits in Australia households, then take an after photo of it in a preserved form (eg. in a jam)
Take a photo of your attempt at preserving a food and explain the science of what makes it last longer
Create a resource to encourage other people to not waste food
Identify ways to extend the life of some commonly wasted foods
Write five different ways to reuse one specific leftover from your household waste
Write or adapt a recipe that makes use of a food that often gets wasted in your household
Write a short story about the life of a fruit or vegetable
Design a machine or invention that preserves one of the 10 most commonly wasted foods
Create a poster to show other people that it’s good to buy/eat ‘ugly’ fruit