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Fun Hummingbird Tree Crafts to make with the kids

The Hummingbird is also called the messenger of joy and it is always good luck to see a hummingbird. I saw lots of hummingbirds around the time of my daughter Avery’s birth. Recently Avery and I made these cute hummingbird crafts to hang on trees in honour of tree planting hero and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai who died several months ago. She used to tell a beautiful story about the hummingbird: See it here:  VIDEO: I will be a hummingbird.  I will do the best I can.

Avery had a lot of fun making the hummingbird craft as it involved finger painting. We made a bunch of hummingbirds and hung them from trees in Canada and two months later we brought a hummingbird with us to hang from a tree in Zambia. We were in Zambia to donate trees to children from MY CHARITY – The ChariTREE Foundation. While there, I told the children about the story of the hummingbird. VIDEO: from our ‘Tree Trip’ to Zambia.

What you’ll need to make your own hummingbird craft:

• Green and blue finger paint
• Silver sparkle paint in a tube
• Paint brush
• Black and white construction paper
• Dark Blue marker
• Scissors
• Glue
• Glitter
• hole punch
• green ribbon

How to:

• Have your child finger paint two pieces of paper with blue, green and silver (or whatever colour combo you want) – try to fill both pages with paint.
• Before the paint dries have your child sprinkle sparkles over the hummingbird.
• Let dry for three hours.
• Cut the two pages into one big oval (for the body); two big tingles (for wings); one smaller triangle (for the tail); and one small but long tingle (for the beak). See image.
• Fold the wings and the tail piece accordion style and glue them to the back of the oval. Add the beak, draw the birds eves
• Glue the pieces together and use the marker to draw on the bird’s eyes and some hearts on the hummingbird’s body.
• Draw lines along the wings with your silver sparkle paint.
• Once dry punch a hole with a hole punch in one wing and tie a ribbon through it.
• Go outside and hang it from a tree.

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Grand prize: $100 towards fruit trees for children.

The ChariTREE Foundation + Love Trees are branching out with this super-cool Earth Day Giveaway to:

• Thank you for helping us grow.

• To grow some more by letting even more people know about Love Trees + The ChariTREE Foundation.

Use the Rafflecopter form below to play – it’s a fun way to help kids and the planet.

This contest is open to everyone 18 and older worldwide.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

RULES:

An email address is required to enter. The winner will be chosen randomly through Rafflecopter and contacted via email. A reply to the winning email is required within 48 hours before a new winner is chosen. One person entering per household please. 

This giveaway ends on April 21, 2012 and is open to everyone 18+ worldwide.  :  )

You can use either your Facebook account OR your name and email address to sign in. Click ‘Do It’ for instructions on how to complete each entry. There is no mandatory entry. Have fun and pass it on – it’s a great way to raise awareness about a great cause – afterall kids need trees. ♥

The more entries you submit, the better odds you have of winning!

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VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA – January 19, 2012 – HostPapa Green Web Hosting was awarded the 2011 Love Trees Partnership Award of Merit today in honour of HostPapa’s TREE-mendously successful 2011 Earth Day Awareness Campaign which raised enough money to give 10,000 children trees in Malawi and Zambia.

“It’s exciting to partner with a hosting company that is taking powerful steps to green the internet by helping kids and the planet,” said Andrea Koehle Jones, founder and executive director, Love Trees. “Thanks for helping to make the world a better place and thanks for helping Love Trees grow.”

In developing countries, a Love Tree is truly a “tree of life” as it can alleviate hunger, foster self-sufficiency, provide natural disaster tree relief, combat global warming and improve nearby soil, air and water. ”There’s something so hopeful about planting trees with kids,” said Koehle Jones. “Kids are the future stewards of the environment. They’re concerned about the state of the planet and eager to help. I’ve seen the magic that happens when you give a child a tree – let’s give as many children as we can a Love Tree to plant.”

“We set out to encourage HostPapa customers, their friends and family, and the general public to join us in our efforts to plant 10,000 trees through Love Trees,” says Sylvain Patry, Senior Vice-President of Business Development for HostPapa Inc.

Love Trees manages a global children’s educational tree planting program. Since 2006, Love Trees has given thousands of trees to schoolchildren around the world, empowering them by also providing them with the tools and skills to be active stewards of the environment.

HostPapa, a green web hosting pioneer, offers high-value, low-cost reliable web hosting that is 100% powered by green renewable energy. Developing a partnership with LoveTrees.ca was, and is, an excellent fit for both organizations.

The 2011 Earth Day initiative was simple: for every person that visited HostPapa’s Facebook page (www.facebook.com/hostpapa) and clicked “like,” HostPapa donated a tree. In less than a month, 10,000 likes turned into 10,000 trees!

For more information, please visit:

www.lovetrees.ca/
www.hostpapa.ca/

VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA – January 19, 2012 – Love Trees is honoured to award the 2011 Love Trees Leadership Award of Merit to Jon T. High, Team Leader at Teule Kenya.  Jon lead a successful 2011 Tree Planting event sponsored by Love Trees in honour of Nobel Laureate Wangari Mathai. He planted 100 fruit trees with orphans and vulnerable children in Oloitokitok, on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro – an area that has suffered considerable deforestation.

“Love Trees is TREE-mendously impressed with Jon’s dedication to children and trees,” said Andrea Koehle Jones, founder and executive director, Love Trees. “This type of leadership is the heart of Love Trees.”

Jon and Teule Kenya children planted mango, papaya, guava, mulberry, lukward, passion fruit, grape, banana, apple, lemon and orange trees.

“I am deeply humbled about the award,” said Jon. I want to play my little part and see how we can get all people – especially the children involved in our lives – to know how enriching and rewarding it is to take care of Nature (especially trees) and the endless benefits that come from that… Thank you Love Trees for this opportunity!”

In developing countries, a Love Tree is truly a “tree of life” as it can alleviate hunger, foster self-sufficiency, provide natural disaster tree relief, combat global warming and improve nearby soil, air and water.

”There’s something so hopeful about planting trees with kids,” said Koehle Jones. “Kids are the future stewards of the environment. They’re concerned about the state of the planet and eager to help. I’ve seen the magic that happens when you give a child a tree – let’s give as many children as we can a Love Tree to plant.”

Love Trees manages a global children’s educational tree planting program. Since 2006, Love Trees has given thousands of trees to school children around the world, empowering them by also providing them with the tools and skills to be active stewards of the environment.

Teule Kenya, meaning “Chosen one ,” helps orphaned and vulnerable children by providing them with love, shelter, proper nourishment, education healthcare and guidance.  Increasingly Teule Kenya is dealing with children orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS and Maasai girls rescued from FGM and early marriage.

For more information, please visit:

www.lovetrees.ca/

http://teulekenya.org/
http://chosenchildren.webs.com/

It’s a fun and easy way to make a dent in the tremendous amount of power used online around the world 24 hours a day and a powerful way to put a tree in the hands of a child on the other side of the world.

WATCH YOUTUBE VIDEO: Tree Planting Program: Greened by Love Trees

For $5 you:

• put a Love Tree in the hands of a child in Africa or Haiti to plant around their school or to take home and plant.
• get your website or social media address tweeted through http://twitter.com/Love_Trees
• receive a Greened by Love Trees Badge of Honour to post on any of your sites or as part of your email signature to let friends and colleagues know that you support a powerful children’s environmental education and tree planting project.
• show friends and colleagues that you care about kids and the planet,
• get to ‘green’ your website, blog, Facebook or Twitter account – green anything online and help make the world a better place.

PAY: Click the ‘BUY NOW’ button to pay $5 for your tree. You can pay by credit card or Paypal.

ADD: Add the website, blog, FB page or Twitter address you want promoted through a tweet to the comments box. Your tweet will look like this: eg: squamishclimbing.com (your site names) is now Greened by Love Trees.

SELECT: After making your payment RETURN TO LOVE TREES to select your Greened by Love Trees badge and insert it on any of your sites and add it to your email signature. Optional: If you want your website tweeted at http://twitter.com/love_trees you can also email you web address to info@lovetrees.ca.