Clean Up Australia Day ideas for OSHC
15 DIY activities for Clean Up Australia Day at before and after school care or vacation care. Pick and mix, or build a balanced day in one click.
Bottle Top Mosaic
Children sort collected bottle tops by colour and glue them onto a board to make bright mosaic pictures, turning plastic waste into art.
Reconciliation Week · Clean Up Australia Day · Environmental Day +3Caring for Country Walk
Children pick up litter and notice native plants on a nature walk. Connects caring for the environment with respect for Country.
Gardening Day · Sustainable Superstars · Recycle Day +3Compost Bin Start-Up
Children sort food scraps into compost and non-compost piles, then start a compost bin and learn what breaks down and why.
Sustainable Superstars · Recycle Day · Clean Up Australia Day +2Daily Waste Audit
Older children weigh and sort the day's rubbish to see what the service throws away and plan ways to reduce it.
Environmental Day · Clean Up Australia Day · Earth Day +2Environmental Action Day
Children take part in a litter clean-up, sort waste into the right bins and share a waste-free afternoon tea.
Life Skills Day · Gardening Day · Sustainable Superstars +2Garden Jobs
Children help weed, water and mulch garden beds, learning how to care for plants.
Clean Up Australia Day · Recycle Day · Environmental Day +2Litter Sorting Graph
Children sort clean collected rubbish into types and create a graph to show what they found.
National Tree Day · Gardening Day · Earth Day +3Native Seedling Planting
Children plant native seedlings in the service grounds or a community site, learning how trees support wildlife and the environment.
World Oceans Day · Clean Up Australia Day · Recycle Day +3Plastic in the Ocean Demo
Children add plastic items to a tub of water with toy sea creatures, see how plastic tangles and floats, and test ways to clean it up.
Recycle Day · Clean Up Australia Day · Sustainable Superstars +3Recycling Sort Relay
Teams race to sort clean rubbish into the right bins, learning which items belong in recycling, compost or landfill.
Clean Up Australia Day · Recycle Day · Sustainable Superstars +3Rubbish Art Sculpture
Children turn clean collected rubbish into a creative sculpture to display.
Clean Up Australia Day · Environmental Day · Earth Day +3Schoolyard Litter Clean-Up
Teams with gloves and tongs collect and tally rubbish around the grounds, caring for their space.
World Turtle Day · World Oceans Day · Under the Sea +2Turtle Diet Tong Relay
Teams use tongs to feed their turtle the right food, such as seagrass for green turtles or shellfish for loggerheads, while avoiding plastic look-alikes that turtles can mistake for food.
Clean Up Australia Day · World Oceans Day · Environmental Day +3Waterways Pollution Demo
Children use a simple model to see how litter on the ground travels through drains into waterways.
Earth Day · Recycle Day · Clean Up Australia Day +2Woven Recycled Place Mats
Children weave strips of junk mail and cereal boxes into sturdy, colourful place mats.