Earth Day is on April 22nd we are celebrating with our favorite Earth Day crafts for kids of all ages. Whether you have a preschooler, Kindergartner, grade school student or older child, we have the perfect Earth Day craft for classroom or home.
Earth Day Crafts for Kids
The Earth is important and so is taking care of it and celebrating it, and teaching our kids how to do the same. We will start with a special craft for Earth day that has been a favorite for almost as long as Kids Activities Blog has been around! And then there is a list of some of our other favorite Earth Day crafts that you won’t be able to wait to do with the kids.
Related: Our favorite Earth Day activities & Earth Day Quotes Coloring Pages
Doing Earth crafts is important, because it gives us as parents an opening to talk about how we should take care of our planet. Mother Earth is where we all live and she needs our help to thrive!
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Earth Day Arts & Crafts Project
First, this easy craft is a simple earth day project that little hands can do – great preschool craft idea – and has creative opportunities for older kids as well. I thought it would be fun to take the word “earth” literal with our crafting activity. I sent my youngest out to the yard with a cup with instructions to bring back dirt.
It was the perfect mission for an 8 year old boy!
Supplies Needed For Earth Day Craft
- Cup full of dirt
- Crayons, markers or watercolor paint
- Glue
- Scissors or preschool training scissors
- Hole punch
- Ribbon or twine
- Cardboard from a box in your recycling bin
- (Optional) Earth Day Printable – or you can draw your own world
How To Make This Easy Earth Day Craft
Step 1
The first thing we did was to paint the ocean blue with watercolors for both Earth Day coloring pages.
Step 2
Once it was dry, we used a paint brush to cover all the land with a generous layer of white glue.
Step 3
The next step is to gently drop the collected dirt over the newly glued areas.
Step 4
Once the glue had time to dry, we shook off the excess dirt {outside} and were left with earth-covered continents!
Step 5
We cut out each circle map and then traced it on a piece of cardboard from the recycling bin.
Step 6
The next step was to glue each side of the map on each side of the cardboard, hot glue a ribbon edge and add a ribbon hanger.
Our Experience Making this Earth Day Craft
Rhett wanted to make sure that his Earth Day craft would be hanging in HIS room.
Favorite Earth Day Crafts for Kids
Looking another fun way or two to teach your child about our beautiful planet? Here are more easy Earth Day projects to help kids celebrate!
2. Earth Day Suncatcher Craft
Look how lovely this Earth Day suncatcher is! There is blue for the water, green for the Earth, and my favorite, glitter! It’s so lovely and really shines in the sun. Earth day sun catchers are such a great way to not only celebrate, but bring color into your home! This craft is super simple and a perfect preschool earth day craft via No Time For Flash Cards
3. Preschool Train Craft Using Recycled Supplies
What better way to celebrate Earth than recycling? This craft train for preschoolers is simple to make as all you need is: toilet paper rolls, bottle caps, string, clue, and colorful tape and crayons! This is one of my favorite toilet paper roll crafts. via Make And Take
Related: Check out another version of this traincraft!
4. Cinch T-Shirt Bag String Backpack Craft Perfect for Older Kids
Upcycle clothes to avoid them landing in the landfill! Use old t-shirts to make these super cute cinch t-shirts bags. These are perfect for school, sleep overs, or even a long car ride as they can carry all your stuff! via Patchwork Possee
5. Make Paper Mache for Earth Day
No matter your age, paper mache is an awesome craft! You can make almost anything and it is a great way to recycle paper and magazines! This great Earth day activity shoes you how to make paper mache and how to make a paper mache bowl. Other fun paper mache projects you might want to tackle:
- Make beautifully recycled pots via Childhood 101 (great craft for preschoolers)
- Craft a paper mache butterfly (great craft for elementary age kids)
- Build a paper mache moose head! (great craft for older kids)
- Make this hot air balloon craft out of paper mache. (great craft for kids of all ages)
6. Make Truffula Trees to Remember the Lorax
We have several ways to make truffula tree crafts in honor of the story from Dr Seuss about letting the trees talk for themselves.
- Truffula tree and Lorax craft for kids using upcycled cereal boxes and cardboard tubes
- Make this Dr Seuss paper plate craft that turns into a truffula tree
- These Dr Seuss truffula tree bookmarks are fun to make & use
7. Make a Recycled Robot Craft
Kids of all ages (and even the adults) love this recycled robot craft that literally takes on a different form depending on what you find in your recycling bin! Oh the possibilities…
Related: Wasteful activities – ways to teach kids not to be wasteful.
8. Craft Bracelets from Old Magazines
Making bracelets beads out of old magazines is really fun and a lovely Earth Day craft for kids of all ages. What colors are you going to use from that stack of old magazines in the garage?
9. Create Nature Collage Art for Earth Day
I love that this Earth Day craft starts out with a scavenger hunt in nature to enjoy the earth. Try making this butterfly collage with whatever materials are in your backyard.
10. Butterfly Feeder Craft for the Entire Family
This Earth Day, let’s create a butterfly feeder for the backyard! It starts with a super easy butterfly feeder craft and then a homemade butterfly food recipe to attract butterflies to your yard.
11. Make a Paper Tree Craft for Earth Day
Make this super cute and easy paper tree craft using recycled paper and paint! I love how simple this is for kids of any age including the youngest Earth Day celebrators.
12. Make a Handprint Tree for Earth Day
Absolutely any age can make this handprint tree craft…can you guess what made the trunk? It is an arm!
More Earth Day Crafts, Activities & Printables
- Be sure to stop by our Earth Day printable placemats. These free earth day graphics show the importance of taking care of the Earth, can be printed on the back of used paper, and can be laminated for multiple use!
- More things to do on Mother Earth Day
- Get colorful with these Earth Day coloring pages. Help your child learn the importance of taking care of Earth for generations to come. This Earth day coloring page set comes with 6 different coloring sheets.
- What better way to celebrate than with these cute earth day treats and snacks? These Earth Day recipes are sure to be a hit!
- Try our Earth Day recipes to eat GREEN all day long!
- Check out these interactive Earth day activities to get you child involved!
- Looking for more ways to celebrate Earth day? We have other fun Earth day ideas and projects for preschoolers and older kids alike!
It has been many years since we first made this original Earth Day craft out of earth :), but it remains one of my favorite arts & crafts projects on Kids Activities Blog. We hope you have a ton of fun finding the perfect Earth Day craft for this year!
Love this idea of using “earth for an Earth Day craft. Too cute!
Thanks for this! I am printing ours now!