I hope you’ll find some inspiration here, and if you have more ideas to share, please add them to a comment so that others can enjoy them too.
Happy Earth Day!
- Build a Container Fairy Garden (above)
- Make a Play Garden, a carved out space just for the kids to dig and plant in.
- Pinecone and Peanut Butter Bird Feeder
- Get out the acrylic paint and make some Painted Sticks, from Paint Cut Paste
- These Gum Leaf (or almost any other leaf) Necklaces are so sweet, from Let the Children Play
- On your next beach trip, collect some Shells and Paint them, from Paint Cut Paste
- Grow Wheat Grass Indoors {the fastest growing plant}
- I can’t get over these beautiful Nature Prints made with Sculpey, from The Artful Parent
- These Fabric Sunprints is the ultimate of earth day activities since it’s a science experiment and art project wrapped up in one.
- 18 Tips on How to Garden with Kids will guide you in the right direction, from Kids Activities Blog
- Nature Collage with Leaves and Markers
- For Water Painting with Toddlers, all you need is a bucket of water and a brush
- Painted Stones. Gasp. So pretty! from Garden Mama
- Earth Day Garden Flags to spruce up the garden, from Paint Cut Paste
- Take your sketch book outdoors for Leaf Printing in a Nature Journal, from The Artful Parent
- Nature Box Dioramas made from leaves, moss, and other natural finds, from Art Club Blog
- Corn Husk Doll. The classic recipe, from Garden Mama
Earth Day Activities with Recycled Materials
- Tin Can Drums (above)
- Upcycled Box Bugs that are so beautiful you’ll want to make one yourself, from Mother Baby Earth
- Recycled Garden Collage, from Laugh Paint Create
- Upcycle Baby Food Jars into Summer Candle Votives
- Milk Carton Plug Ring – this makes me laugh, from No Time for Flash Cards
- 34 Recyclables to Upcycle for the Kids, from Hands on: As we Grow
- How to Make Paper. With or without kids. It’s so easy.
- Recycled Trash Sculpture What could represent earth day activities more than up cycled trash?
- New computer or furniture? Make a Recycled Styrofoam Sculpture, from The Chocolate Muffin Tree
- Abstract Recycled Print with styrofoam trays
- Build a Garden Water Wall from Recycled Materials, from Irresistible Ideas for Play Based Learning
- DIY Wind Chimes with Tin Cans, from Hands on: As we Grow
- 15 Recycled Paper Roll Crafts, from No Time for Flash Cards
- Simple Styrofoam Prints
- Make a Trashy Collage for Earth Day, from Teach Preschool
- Quick and Easy Water Bottle Flowers with Markers, from The Chocolate Muffin Tree
- 75 Egg Carton Projects from some of brightest kids’ activity blogerrs around
Outdoor Art Earth Day Activities
- Build a Mud Pie Kitchen (above)
- Nature in Art: Nature Study and Georgia O’Keefe, from Simple Kids
- Six Ways to Take Art Outdoors
- All you need are some leaves and construction paper to make Construction Paper Sun Prints, from A Mom with a Lesson Plan
- Brilliant idea for teaching colors, outdoors with a Flower Color Wheel, from A Golden Gleam
- Got paint chips? Make an Outdoor Color Match Game, from Inner Child Fun
- Walk around and document the neighborhood with a Photo Documentary
- Hello Andy Goldsworthy! Make some Land Art, from Mommy Labs
- Take photos of colors in a Rainbow Scavenger Hunt
- Make your own Nature Journal, from a Mom with a Lesson Plan
- 6 Backyard Playscapes for Fun and Learning, from Let the Children Play
- Giant Painted Mural on paper taped to a fence
- Slide Drawing – tape paper to a slide, add some crayons, and go!
- Drawing Shadows to track the passage of time. Great for long summer days.
- Four Messy Outdoor Crafts, from She Knows
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