Flashback Friday!

This week, look away now if you don't like bugs or snakes!!

We had a cool fun day were we were allowed see and touch lots of bugs and animals, and we were also told about them too. 


We're going to Dublin Zoo soon, we can't wait! We'll post all our best pictures on our Instagram, instagram.com/yttblackwater

Tips for leftover food!

Do you often have food leftover at home? There are some easy tips to stop this!

1. You should be careful what you buy, and only buy what you need. Don't just buy something because it is on sale!
2. You can freeze almost all leftover food and eat another day for dinner or lunch.
3. If you still have leftover food you should put it in a special compost bin.
4. If you have some leftover foods you can use them to make something else, like an omelet or even a nice dessert, like banana bread!
5. Did you know you can also use leftover foods to make beauty products? We found some easy ones to make on Irish website Her.ie, and one is even made from potato!

Look at the different masks here and let us know if you try any yourself! www.her.ie/beauty/so-simple-5-amazing-homemade-face-masks


For more tips on stopping food waste you can also visit:
www.stopfoodwaste.ie

Presentation of the Seeds

Remember when we told you about our wing-friendly gardens? Well a few weeks later Blackwater Tidy Towns visited the local primary school and gave out seeds to many children (not only YTT Blackwater members) to bring home and plant!


Our local councillor Oliver Walsh and Principal Mrs O'Brien as well as Blackwater Tidy Towns member Margaret Sinnott helped give out the seeds.

Flashback Friday!

If you follow our Instagram (we hope you all do!) www.instragram.com/yttblackwater you will see we have already started work on St Brigids garden this year. But did you know it's only a new garden? This weeks Flashback Friday will show you what it looked like before!

Our crafts!!

We've been posting our progress over on Instragram (instagram.com/yttblackwater) but we thought we would wait until you could see the finished product before we said anything here!

We painted some old tyres donated to us, with some old paint that was also donated to us!

We're going to put the finished items around the village to decorate, let us know if you spot any!

Flashback Friday!

Here are some "Flashback Friday" photos from activities we have done in the past year. When we're not busy on the internet we also get outside and work hard!! ;)


Here are photos from a nature walk we did around the local area!

Composting Course!

The members of Blackwater Tidy Towns went to some meetings the past few weeks about food waste and composting, which was helped by Wexford County Council Environment Department.



They're going to be teaching us more about it this summer, but we think building a wormery sounds gross!

Flashback Friday!

For the month of May we're going to try do a "Flashback Friday" every week, and show you some of our older photos from before we had the blog!

This week, our giant sunflowers!!! Did you know that we had a competition to see who could grow the biggest sunflower? It was difficult to decide as they all grew so big, taller than most of us!

We're going to do it again this year!