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.

When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.

But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.

What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.

There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.

I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.

This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).

Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.

Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.

[Photo: What We Do All Day]

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