The Magical ‘Waste Sorting’ Chest of Drawers

About the game

Where should you put an empty bottle, used paper or food scraps? The rubbish has got mixed up, and now you need to help each item find the right bin!

The magical ‘Rubbish Sorting’ chest is a wooden game with four bins: the child sorts the waste into categories — glass, plastic and metal, paper, and food waste.

A small task with great significance — learning through play to develop the habit of treating the environment with care.

In the set

• 4 wooden bins for different types of waste
• 40 tokens depicting household waste: glass, plastic and metal, paper, food waste
• a play backdrop featuring a brick wall

How to play

1. Look at the bins and explain what goes in each one.
2. The child takes a token and decides which bin to put it in.
3. Lay out all 40 tokens.

Where to start

Start with two bins — one for paper and one for food waste.

Game variations

• ‘Explain why it goes here’;
• ‘What’s been put in the wrong place?’;
• Story: a lorry has arrived for recycling;
• Find similar waste items at home.

What children can practise

• classification and logic
• respect for the environment
• speech

Who it’s for

Children aged 3 and over; at home, at kindergarten, or during lessons with a teacher.

Material

Wood-based board (pressed wood), bright print.