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Teaching Kids how to compost

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By Alan Chan

Composting is great fun, as well as an engaging and educational task for children. Not only is it a lesson in environmental awareness but you’re building sustainable habits from a very early stage.

The next time you’re at the dinner table, have a discussion with your children about why composting is helpful for the environment and the amazing benefits and rewards that can be reaped from upcycling food scraps. The size, sight (and contents!) of the compost bin might be a bit daunting and unappealing at first, but there are some things you can do to help them on this journey.

Personalised Compost Bucket

Get the kids a small plastic bucket and give them the responsibility to fill it with kitchen scraps for carrying to the compost. Having ownership of the bin makes it more personable and fun; you can also encourage your child to decorate the compost bucket with some stickers or markers. The idea of the compost bucket is to keep this in the kitchen as you prep food for family meals, and once it’s full it can be taken out to be emptied into the compost bin.

Turn composing into a game

The compost bin should include a mixture of brown ‘crunchy’ materials such as dried leaves, sticks, newspaper and cardboard. It should also be a mixture of household green waste such as fruit, vegetable scraps, and grass clippings. Use a trip to the park as an opportunity to find leaves and sticks – count them, compare shapes and colours, and take a pick-up stick to make collecting fun. Count each one together as you place into the compost bin and use the opportunity to talk about how leaves and scraps will become soil to nourish new plants and trees. If you have a bokashi bin or above-ground compost, you can set up a mini garden or herb garden for the kids, and use the compost as fertiliser.

Worm Farm composting

Make your own worm farm compost bin out of a plastic bin by drilling holes on the top, base and sides of the bin. Kids are fascinated by worms and this is a great idea to introduce them to composting in a really hands-on way. Get your child a magnifying glass so they can spot the worms in the bin – they will love this! It’s easy to buy live worms to kick start this project; the bags normally come in 500 or 1000 worms. You will need 500 worms to get yourself started as well as bedding such as newspaper torn into strips. Keep the bedding evenly moist by misting it with water using a spray bottle. Kids will love feeding the worms with fruit and vegetable scraps. Place these scraps in your child’s compost bucket or use a favourite bowl and let the kids place the scraps into the worm farm, spreading the food waste evenly.

Read children’s books about composting

A great way to engage children about composting from an early age is to expose them to fantastic literature on the topic. Reading books to children is not only fun but very engaging and helps kids understand the concepts of waste, recycling, and upcycling. Some of my favourite books about composting are:

  • Compost Stew by Mary McKenna Siddals
  • Composting: Nature’s Recyclers by Robin Koontz
  • Save The Scraps by Bethany Stahl
  • The Little Composter by Jan Gerardi
  • Green Machine: The Slightly Gross Truth about Turning Your Food Scraps into Green Energy by Rebecca Donnelly
  • What’s Sprouting in My Trash? A book about composting by Esther Porter
  • Compost: A family guide to making soil from scraps by Ben Raskin

Plant flowers and vegetable seedlings

Once you’ve established your compost bin and your compost is ready to use in the garden, encourage your kids to plant their favourite flowers using the homemade compost. Popular and easy to grow flowers include pansies, marigolds, sunflowers and daisies. Something really bright and colourful can help inspire and encourage children to do more composting as they can see the benefits of this in the garden and watch their flowers grow and flourish. Alternatively, children can plant vegetable seedlings such a tomatoes, lettuce, chives and dill in the garden bed using the compost. They can do a fun experiment together by comparing seedlings grown in the compost and one without and allow them to spot the difference in growth each week. Get your kids to take photos and do drawings of their plants. The magnifying glass will come handy here again!

Take these helpful hints and allow your children to join the journey of home composting. Take your time, enjoy the journey, and know that it’s important to have regular discussions about waste so you can maintain this excitement for children to keep caring for the planet for many years to come.


Alan Chan of @plant.jungle is a millennial plant-fluencer, obsessed with creating and growing his own indoor jungle. Via Instagram he shares tips, tricks, and lifestyle hacks for gardening in small spaces, propagation, and plant care. Alan, aka the ultimate green thumb, has created a feel-good space online that welcomes and nurtures any like-minded plant lovers.

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If you grew up in the ‘80s, ‘90s, or early 2000’s, chances are you were taught to see food through a moral lens: veggies were “good,” chocolate was “bad,” and fat was something to fear. That messaging stuck.

So now, when you reach for a bag of chips after a long day or say yes to dessert, a quiet voice in the back of your mind is likely to whisper: “You shouldn’t.” You feel like you’ve done something wrong – simply for eating something you enjoy. And here’s the thing: our kids are watching. They’re listening. The way we talk about food becomes the way they relate to it.

If you want to raise confident eaters, it’s time to let go of the “good” vs “bad” food narrative and allow your kids to enjoy food without guilt or shame. Let’s be real; some foods are more nutrient-dense than others. But that doesn’t mean that we need to rank them on a scale. Instead of calling food “good” or “bad”, try talking about how it fits into the bigger picture of what our bodies need. 

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No Food Shaming. If you grew up in the ‘80s, ‘90s, or early 2000’s, chances are you were taught to see food through a moral lens: veggies were “good,” chocolate was “bad,” and fat was something to fear. That messaging stuck. So now, when you reach for a bag of chips after a long day or say yes to dessert, a quiet voice in the back of your mind is likely to whisper: “You shouldn’t.” You feel like you’ve done something wrong – simply for eating something you enjoy. And here’s the thing: our kids are watching. They’re listening. The way we talk about food becomes the way they relate to it. If you want to raise confident eaters, it’s time to let go of the “good” vs “bad” food narrative and allow your kids to enjoy food without guilt or shame. Let’s be real; some foods are more nutrient-dense than others. But that doesn’t mean that we need to rank them on a scale. Instead of calling food “good” or “bad”, try talking about how it fits into the bigger picture of what our bodies need. Read on for a few ways to reframe the conversation: https://peninsulakids.com.au/no-food-shaming @nourishwithkarina Nourish with Karina #nofoodshaming
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AT 94 years old, Frank Brown is living proof that creativity knows no age. A beloved gem to the community of Hastings, Frank has become an unlikely celebrity at FiRST Early Learning Hastings thanks to his handcrafted dioramas. 

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AT 94 years old, Frank Brown is living proof that creativity knows no age. A beloved gem to the community of Hastings, Frank has become an unlikely celebrity at FiRST Early Learning Hastings thanks to his handcrafted dioramas. Read the full story using the link: https://www.mpnews.com.au/2025/07/22/94-year-old-brings-tiny-world-magic-to-kids #morningtonpeninsula #hastings #localcelebrity @firstearlylearning FiRST Early Learning Photo: Gary Sissons
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The Myth of the Perfect Parent
Somewhere along the way, we’ve been sold this idea that good parenting means never messing up. That if we just try hard enough, read the right books, and avoid raising our voices, we’ll somehow unlock the secret to raising perfectly adjusted children. But here’s the truth which I finally accepted: there is no perfect way to parent. There are only good days and bad days. There are moments when you handle things beautifully and moments when you yell something ridiculous like, “WHY ARE YOUR SHOES IN THE FRIDGE?” There are times when you feel like a hero and times when you feel like a complete failure. And that’s okay.

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The Myth of the Perfect Parent Somewhere along the way, we’ve been sold this idea that good parenting means never messing up. That if we just try hard enough, read the right books, and avoid raising our voices, we’ll somehow unlock the secret to raising perfectly adjusted children. But here’s the truth which I finally accepted: there is no perfect way to parent. There are only good days and bad days. There are moments when you handle things beautifully and moments when you yell something ridiculous like, “WHY ARE YOUR SHOES IN THE FRIDGE?” There are times when you feel like a hero and times when you feel like a complete failure. And that’s okay. https://peninsulakids.com.au/mumming-the-art-of-failing-and-why-thats-totally-fine/ @drunkmummysobermummy
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Nothing quite prepares you, as a parent, for the moment your child stops being able to hold it all together. The sudden collapse of the smile, the spark, the motivation. The moment when their pain no longer hides behind school routines and friendships, and instead spills into the home in the most heartbreaking of ways. And yet, stories like these are quietly unfolding in homes and schools everywhere. 

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Nothing quite prepares you, as a parent, for the moment your child stops being able to hold it all together. The sudden collapse of the smile, the spark, the motivation. The moment when their pain no longer hides behind school routines and friendships, and instead spills into the home in the most heartbreaking of ways. And yet, stories like these are quietly unfolding in homes and schools everywhere. Read more by copying link: peninsulakids.com.au/when-crisis-comes-calling @theknowingself The Knowing Self #theknowingself
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