SEVERAL Tweed children became Green Heroes last Sunday as they scrambled to help clean up Fingal Beach.

About 60 children gathered at Fingal Heads Surf Life Saving Club to listen to storyteller Rainbow Eagle talk about how to protect the environment as part of the new Green Heroes initiative, recently launched in the area.

Sarah Jantos, Green Heroes organiser, said the kids really felt they'd made an impact after cleaning up rubbish from the beach.

"They really enjoyed the Rainbow Eagle show, which was all about getting the kids to be protectors of the planet and clean up rubbish which they did straight after the show,” Ms Jantos said.

Ms Jantos said each month the Green Heroes program aimed to educate local preschool-aged children about the environment.

"We feel like there is a gap in the community for environmental education activities for preschool-aged children, a lot of that kind of stuff comes in later in primary school but there's nothing for this age group,” Ms Jantos said.

"A lot of research suggests that by the age of seven children have already formed concrete, moral and ethical ideas about the world that shape the decisions they make in adulthood.”

The next Green Heroes event will be held on August 21.

See www.greenheroes .com.au.