Earth Day Activities for Kids

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.

Did you know that October is Squirrel Awareness Month? I didn’t know we needed more awareness of these little creatures, but let’s take it as a sign to learn more about squirrels!

Let’s start with some fun facts via Kids Konnect: did you know there are five subfamilies and more that 280 species of squirrels? The smallest are pygmy squirrels and the largest, the Bhutan giant flying squirrel, can be longer that 4 feet (1.2 meters).

Tree squirrels can climb down trees so fast because their ankles can rotate 180 degrees, allowing them to grab the tree bark as they go down. While most squirrels don’t survive their first year of life, they can live five to 10 years in the wild and squirrels have been known to live up to 20 years in captivity!

Rhythms of Play has more fun facts and tips for observing squirrels if you want to add some real life nature to your nature study.

We always like to start these collections with life cycle and parts of the animal printables, so let’s grab the squirrel life cycle an parts of a squirrel worksheets from Montessori Nature. (It doesn’t look like these are free any more but they have a whole unit study on squirrels you can buy that includes life cycle and parts activities, characteristics of different kinds of squirrels, a printable poster, information about predators and more.)

Grab the squirrel lapbook printable (free with email address) from Homeschool Share to learn the parts of a squirrel, where they live, what they eat, whether they hibernate and more. There’s also a nut taste test printable, a place for making observations about squirrels, life cycle of an oak tree, games and more.

Simple Everyday Mom has some cute squirrel themed worksheets including tracing the letter s, labeling the parts of a squirrel and a letter s maze. She also has more activity pages with a squirrel theme, including matching, a more traditional maze and a counting and graphing activity.

Work on letter recognition with this squirrel and acorn game printable from Teaching Mama. I love the idea of hiding the letters in a fall themed sensory bin for kids to find, identify and match to the letter on the worksheet.

For older kids you can do this “if I were a squirrel” writing prompt from Lesson Planet.

And throw in a little counting with these squirrel and acorn tens frame printables from JDaniel4’s Mom, which you can use to count real acorns or any other little fall themed thing you have handy.

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