Eco-Recreo La Tortuga closed with a theater play

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Eco-Recreo La Tortuga, Fundación La Tortuga’s vacation plan, ended its two weeks of activity with a play about Mother Nature and the Rainbow. This event was held from August 6 to 17, as has been the custom for the past two years, and all children were invited to enjoy a series of activities that seek to reinforce the values of respect for the environment, responsibility for daily actions, and healthy recreation.

Eco-Recreo La Tortuga, Fundación La Tortuga’s vacation plan, ended its two weeks of activity with a play about Mother Nature and the Rainbow. This event was held from August 6 to 17, as has been the custom for the past two years, and all children were invited to enjoy a series of activities that seek to reinforce the values of respect for the environment, responsibility for daily actions, and healthy recreation.

In the reuse workshops, the participants made a series of objects from waste materials, learning to value garbage as raw material to build useful things and where they could express the creativity that flows through their thoughts and hands. Birdhouses, flowers, spinning tops, picture frames, worms were some of the ideas they saw crystallized from plastic bottles and soda caps, juice cartons, and eggs, among others.

They also learned to make their own flags with which they developed juggling skills. These tools were made from scraps of fabric and strips of plastic bags.

No less important were the plastic arts classes. There they learned a little about the meaning of perspective and the basics of dividing a plane when drawing still life. Apples and bottles on tables were the subjects not only drawn in pencil but also colored by hand to put the whole composition into practice.

Every day they enjoyed recreation on the terrace of the foundation’s headquarters, where they gave free rein to their experiences and imaginary characters, faithful companions of all the children, as they encountered a series of toys built by the institution’s staff in life-size for them, such as an airplane, a pirate ship and a complete kitchen with freezer and oven, all made from cardboard boxes kindly donated by Jugueterías Alex.

On the last day, they showed their representatives both the work and the objects made by them to finish with a sharing where the parents themselves enjoyed playing in the cardboard kitchen.