Earth Day Activities and Crafts

Earth Day is a great day to celebrate with kids, because they tend to be pretty naturally interested in the planet and helping to take care of it. And of course there are things we can all do every day to make the world a little greener.

Natural Beach Living has a great collection of more than 30 Earth Day activities and crafts for kids, from planting in egg shells to making a dough Earth, green and blue yarn pompoms and painting crafts. There’s even a link to my post on upcycled craft supplies — Earth Day would be a great time to raid the recycling bin for crafty materials or even to do a trash tower building challenge.

There’s also a book list if you want to read something about helping the planet with your kids. We love Arthur Turns Green, too, in which the kids learn about different things they can do to live a little greener.

Do you celebrate Earth Day with your kids? I’d love to hear what you do!

[Photo: Natural Beach Living.]

Looking for some books to pair with these crafts? Check these out.

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Celebrate Earth Day with Kids

Whether you have snow where you live or are on the wrong side of the world for that, these snow glob crafts for kids are a lot of fun to put together at home or in the classroom.

If you want to keep it super basic, you can download some snow globe coloring pages from Monday Mandala and have kids drawn in their own images (or color in what is there for the ones that are already filled). This could be a fun way to play with different media, having kids paint in one, draw in another, or use crayons in one, colored pencils in another, etc.

Or you can add your kid (or a classroom full of kids) to snowglobes with this craft from Twitchetts. It’s easy to make and fun for kids to help with, too.

You can also make snow globes with paper plates pretty easily, and there are lots of different options out there that should give you some ideas. This one from In the Playroom uses blue glittery pompoms as the snow and has a snowman in the background (though you can use whatever you want).

Mas and Pas uses a clear plate on top of a regular plate to make its snow globe, and Daydream into Reality just uses a paper plate to make the snow globe shape but there’s no snow involved. Their template includes different images you can put in the snow globe, or draw your own.

If you want to make a snow globe without the watery (so potentially less mess) you can make a waterless snow globe out of a plastic cup with this tutorial from The Pragmatic Parent. It uses tiny foam balls as the snow. Tidy Mom’s version uses a real glass jar and fake snow to flurry around.

And if you’re OK with using liquids in your snow globe, which will allow the snow to flutter like in a real snow globe, check out this version from 123 Homeschool 4 Me, which uses water and baby oil.

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