• Aerosols:
Talk about how using sprays with aerosol action affects the environment. Simplify the concept pf CFC’s and global warming.
• Bicycling:
Encourage movement by kid power. Buy your child a bicycle to get her from A to B.
• Car pooling:
If you must send her to school by car, make sure you save energy by car pooling with other parents whose kids go to the same school.
• Dustbins:
Use them yourself and teach your child never to litter. Make her see the wisdom of carrying and packaging and other garbage along she comes to the next trashcan.
• Example:
Yours is vital. Yu can be the best motivator for a child to live a more planet friendly lifestyle.
• Explanations:
Kids need them. So the next time you are out in a park and your child wants to move a log or large stone, don’t  just say,” don’t move that log!” make sure you also explain about how there may be microorganisms living under it hat will be left homeless and consequently destroyed.
• Flowers:
Not plucking them, that is, your chance to teach the plant life cycle while discouraging her from wanton plucking at the same time.
• Glass bottles:
Encourage their use over disposable plastic, especially if the child is old enough.
• Hand towels:
The trend is to use wipe-and throw tissues, especially with school lunches and the like. Explain to kids how to wash and reuse napkins is very much kinder on the environment.
• Indoor plants:
Encourage a green thumb; help your child set up a kitchen garden. She’ll love the fact that the herbs in the food will be hers.
• Journaling:
The best way to make a child proud of her environment friendly efforts is to have her record them in a colorful scrapbook. It could soon grow in a community effort. 
• Kitchen waste:
Use your peels and tealeaves in plant pots and kitchen gardens as natural helpers.
• ‘The lorax’:
Long before it became fashionable to be environment friendly, Dr Seuss warned against mindless progress and the threat it posed to nature. His book ‘the Lorax’- with big colorful images, word play and rhymes- is worth devoting a few evenings to.
• Make your own:
Gifts stationary holders… children need to know that home made has its own value.
• Nature parks:
Take your child to your local nature areas, sanctuaries and parks and point out all the interesting plants and animals.
• Outdoors:
Send them out into the open. It will make them healthier and sturdier, besides giving them effortless exercise in the form of fun and games.
• Public transport: 
Don’t turn your nose up at it.
• Planning:
Working out a route in advance to cover as many errands or visits as possible saves fuel and energy.
• Precycle:
Make a family decision to buy products with as little packaging as possible.
• Quiet:
Talk about noise pollution and how repetitive sound contributes to it.
• Reuse:
Take your own shopping bags along when you go to the market.
• Recycle:
An easy way to recycle is to challenge children to go crafty with packaging and otherwise one time use containers.
• Showers:
As opposed to tub baths. Reserve the latter for special occasions.
• Sanctuary:
This magazine is a great environmental resource for children and adults. Younger children will enjoy cub.
• Turn things off:
Save electricity and cut bills by encouraging kids to switch off lights, fans, appliances and entertainment units when they don’t need to be on.
• Unite:
Unite for conservation and the environment. One great initiative is project tiger. Get your kids involved.
• Value:
Talk to children about the value and importance of ecosystems and the environment at large.
• Water:
Turn off taps when brushing teeth. Discourage wastage of water.
• Walk:
Walking is a great exercise and great for the environment.
• Xmas:
Xmas trees in plastic. If your family is one that decorates a Christmas tree each year, consider a good quality one in plastic or artificial fiber.
• Yawn:
Okay, so we’re cheating. Anyway, kids need sleep to be more alert. Make sure they get it.
• Zoology:
It’s truly a worthy subject. Make sure you give it due consideration.