Los Angeles Celebrates Kids Ocean Day in Person!
The beaches of Los Angeles—and oceans across our planet—need our help now more than ever.
Dozens of Los Angeles elementary schools participated in Kids Ocean Day today, sending thousands of LA-area students to Dockweiler State Beach in Playa del Rey, California for a beach-cleanup and aerial art event. This is the first beach cleanup in two years, after Kids Ocean Day moved online during the pandemic.
The theme this year is “J️❤Y in Nature” and is intended to motivate kids to be good stewards of the environment. An estimated 3,000 kids participated in the day’s event.
The day culminated with awesome aerial art, where the kids spelled out J️❤Y.
Kids Ocean Day is sponsored by the Malibu Foundation for Environmental Education, along with L.A. Sanitation and Environment Watershed Protection Program, the City of Los Angeles Board of Public Works, the California Coastal Commission, the California Coastal Conservancy, and Keep LA Beautiful.
The program teaches kids about how neighborhood litter flows to the ocean, ultimately endangering or killing marine life. The goal is to educate kids about the adverse effects of pollution on our oceans and wildlife and focuses on what kids can do to take care of the beach, the ocean, and marine mammals.
The beaches of Los Angeles—and oceans across our planet—need our help now more than ever.
And all of us—our kids especially—need a little the J️❤Y in our lives.
Today’s event tapped that J️❤Y for kids: Joy for protecting and stewarding our oceans.
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