Creating an energy-saving checklist for your children!
Creating an energy-saving checklist for your children!
Teaching your children to be more energy conscious around the house is about demonstrating actions that make a difference. Kids love to be involved, feel grown up and be part of making a difference and one way is to create a colourful energy saving checklist as a poster.
In this article we’ve listed a range of steps to help you create a checklist plus we’ve created a template to download and use.
5 Steps to create an energy-saving checklist!
Step 1:
Walk around your home and talk about all the things you can add to your list and why they would be useful for saving energy.
Step 2:
Have one of the children use your phone to take a photo of the appliance
Step 3:
Agree to 3-4 points to add to the checklist per room
Step 4:
Agree to a weekly reward for ticking off as many points on the list as possible (reward examples: movie and popcorn night, etc)
Step 5:
Note all points per room on the checklist (link to asset) and place on fridge or central area in the house
Ideas on what to include on the checklist:
- Close the refrigerator door after use. Leaving the door open allows cold air to escape, which causes the refrigerator to work harder to maintain its cold temperature = more energy.
- This an oldie but a goodie, turn off the water when brushing your teeth. Save water by turning the tap off when it’s not in use.
- Turn off bedroom lights when you leave the room
- In Winter, close doors in rooms not in use so the heat remains in the rooms you are in
- Turn heaters/air conditioners off when you leave the room
- Don’t leave your computer monitor on when not in use
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