Earth Day Every Day

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In case you missed it Earth Day was this past Monday. But why not make every day Earth Day? Teach your kids or class to celebrate and appreciate our planet by including earth friendly crafts and activities on a regular basis. Earth Day crafts also make great lesson tools too.

Coffee Filter Earth
Simple and fun: use a coffee filter and food coloring to create pretty version of the earth to display or use in Earth Day lessons and activities.

Handprint Apricot
Another fun handprint painting idea: create a picture of apricots for Spring with your little hands and share the finished project with special friends.

Earth Resource Wheel
Create a fun learning tool with 2 paper plates, crayons and brads. Your kids will enjoy making and learning about the earth and the weather!

Handprint Flower
Construction paper, paint, your hands and imagination are all you need to create a pretty handprint flower painting to hang up or share.

Edible Earth
I love this tasty spin on regular rice krispie treats. Go to the kitchen, get your ingredients and get ready to make your very own edible earth!

Need more Earth Day projects or Spring themed ideas for your class or homeschool? Visit The Idea Box for tons of games, crafts and snacks to create with your kiddos! Connect with us on Facebook where I share more ideas from other crafty bloggers and sites or follow us on Pinterest and create your own pinboard full of kids crafts!

Earth Day Ideas: Part 2

Earth Resource Wheel

There are just a few more days until the official Earth Day holiday (April 22nd in the USA), but many schools and communities focus on Earth Day topics and earth education through the whole month of April.  So...here are a few more ideas for celebrating Earth Day!

Earth Day Snack Cup Project
This is a simple idea for teaching recycling and planting seeds.  Serve yogurt or pudding for a snack and use the cups to plant seeds in.  Don't forget the dirt pellets!

Garbage Dump
This activity can be broken up into multiple parts, such as a "garbage walk" to pick up garbage from a park or playground followed by a dirt sensory table to help illustrate the importance of recycling all that garbage.

Handprint Flower
This craft is great for smaller kiddies (0 - 2 years) to create pretty flowers to give to parents or hang in the classroom.  The handprint flower can also be incorporated into an Earth Day lesson.

Need more Earth Day activities, crafts, games and recipes?  Visit our Earth Day list for more!  Enjoy Earth Day and have fun educating your kids about caring for our planet.  We love feedback and photos, so be sure to send some!

Earth Day Ideas for Your Kids!

Coffee Filter Earth

Who's ready for Earth Day (April 22 in most places)?!  We are ready at The Idea Box and we have tons of fun Earth Day crafts, games and ideas just waiting for you, your kids or your class to try.  How adorable is the Coffee Filter Earth?

Cupcake Spring Flowers
This craft is simple and fun, and can be done by little hands.  You probably already have the supplies in your cupboard!  These cupcake flowers can be used to illustrate a lesson or as a last minute filler activity if you need an easy time-filler.

Earth Day Art
A great activity to get your kids or class outside, you can use it to clean up around the house, school, church or nearby park while discussing ideas for keeping the earth clean.  Bonus - make some art out of the stuff you find on your Earth Day walk!

Earth Day Cooking Project
A successful Earth Day lesson or party must include a treat to help kids stay on topic!  The nice thing about this cooking project: you perform a little prep work and the kids create the treats.  It's a fun way to talk about the soil, gardening, or bugs and creepy crawlies!

Earth Day Flowers
This Earth Day activity is a crowd-pleaser as the kids get to make something to take home to parents or grandparents.  Take pictures of your little "flowers" and then let them add petals and leaves to the printed photos - easy!

Enjoy your Earth Day celebrations!  If you need more ideas please visit our Earth Day page for our full list!  We love feedback and photos, so please send us pictures if you try one of our activities.

Coffee Filter Earth

The Idea Box has several easy Earth Day crafts, this is one of our favorites! While the instructions, and the project in the photo, use food coloring, you can achieve the same effect with water color paints as well.

Get the instructions for our Coffee Filter Earth!

Crafty Wednesday: Earth Day Flowers

Each Wednesday we'll bring you a fun craft to make with your kids!

This week's craft is...

Earth Day Flowers

Digital camera
computer printing program
bullentin board paper
tempra paint
glue

Snap each child with your camera and enlarge on computer. Have each child paint flower petals around their face. (Encourage then to paint with bright colors and large petals). When these have dried cut them out and glue on the bulletin board paper to create the look of a flower garden. Be sure to add stems and leaves. Title "We are the flowers of the Earth"

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Friday Activity: Earth Day Snack Cup Project

Each Friday we'll bring you a fun activity to do with your kids!

This week's activity is...

Earth Day Snack Cup Project

empty Yogurt or Pudding Snack Cup (rinsed clean)
leftover wrapping paper
Dirt Pellets
Seeds

Recycling isn't just for grown-ups! It also means re-using things we might normally throw away. Re-use your snack cup by decorating it with leftover birthday wrapping paper. You can glue the wrapping paper on the cup, or wrap it around and tie with string or ribbon. Then, drop in a dirt pellet (available at walmart/kmart/etc) Add water and watch the dirt expand to fill the cup. Cool! Now plant your seed. Watch your plant grow and let it remind you to recycle and be kind to the Earth.

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