Earth Day Activities for Kids

April 15, 2025 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

I’ve shared a lot of ideas for celebrating Earth Day with kids through the years (including printables, crafts and more) but I feel like I’m always find more Earth Day ideas for kids so here are some more for you to try.

Twichetts has an easy rock painting activity for Earth Day that you can use to talk about how much of the earth is land versus water, or just talk about things we can do to help the planet while you paint.

Try out paper quilling with this fun and easy Earth Day craft from Projects with Kids. Making little circles is pretty easy and you can even use construction paper for this project. It’s a great process art project for kids of various ages.

Rock Your Homeschool has tracing pages and coloring sheets for Earth Day that are great for younger kids and those who are a little older that include discussion ideas you can do while the kids are coloring (such as brainstorming ways to reuse containers with a coloring page showing flowers in a watering can.

And Next Comes L has a printable word scramble with Earth Day vocabulary you can use to talk about things like recycling, composting and conservation.

Simple Everyday Mom has more printable worksheets including work with the letter e and repeating patterns with an Earth Day theme. For younger kids, My Bored Toddler has Earth Day themed dot printables. And Teaching Ideas has an Earth Day scavenger hunt that includes ideas for how kids can help the planet.

These adorable Earth Day printable bookmarks from Moms and Crafters are great to use throughout the year to remember the lessons about being kind to the Earth that we learn on Earth Day. Or print out the visual schedule icons from Natural Beach Living to make sure you keep making things like turning off lights and using reusable bags a regular part of your routine.

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Shark Week Learning for Kids

Shark Week generally happens in July, but any time is a good time to learn more about sharks.

First, start with some fun whale facts like these from Kids Craft Room. Here I learned about the dwarf lantern shark, which is the smallest shark and only grows to about 6-8 inches (about 15-20 cm) long. It also emits light. How cool is that?

Natural Beach Living has some great printable shark information guides, where kids can learn about different kinds of sharks, match the facts to the pictures, or print out doubles and do a shark memory game.

Living Life an Learning has some great shark activity pages including the parts of a shark, types of sharks, a crossword puzzle and more. Also check out their parts of a shark and word scramble download, and a life cycle worksheet.

Learn about how sharks float with this great activity from JDaniel4’s Mom.

Need more facts about sharks? This fact pact from The WOLFe PACK on Teacher Pay Teachers includes fact sheets, a printable flip book, informational text, vocabulary, comprehension questions and more.

Living Montessori Now has a great collection of shark themed activities with a Montessori inspired twist. You’ll find a shark roll and cover, shark phonics and lots more shark activities Deb has collected from all over the Internet.

Remember the “Sharknado” movie? A Few Shortcuts turned the combination of sharks and tornadoes into a fun science activity. You’ll need a bottle connector for this project but otherwise should have everything you need on hand. Use their template to make your sharks out of aluminum foil. So fun!

You can also do some shark themed coloring with these coloring pages from Encouraging Moms at Home. Or make a cool 3D shark with this template from korkotak. And there are tons of different shark crafts collected in this post from Kids Activities Blog.

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