Earth Day Activities

MAKE (Arts and Crafts)

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• Free Art (Have art materials accessible to children such as a coloring page, a stencil, an easel, markers, stamps, colored pencils, crayons, play-dough, and tissue paper/construction paper/fabric squares for children to work with if they'd like as well)

EXPLORE (Sensory Bins)

• Plant the Trees
• Recycle Sort
• Earth Water Beads (blue and green)
• Digging for Worms (real or fake)
• Earth Day Oobleck
• Recycle Bin
• Shaving Cream Ocean and Land Animals
• Bug Bin
• Planting Flowers (real or fake)
• Rocks and Water Beads

CREATE (Play Doh - Mats, Cookie Cutters, Invitations to Play)

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• Plants

PLAY (Inside and Outside Games/Activities)

• Puzzles/Board Games
• Block Center/Building Ideas
• Dramatic Play
• Quiet Activities
• File Folder Activities/Worksheets
• Active Games/Outside Play Activities

READ (Books for the Seasonal Book Basket or Shelf)

• The Lorax
• I Am Earth
• Trees Are Made of Gas
• Thank You Earth
• The Earth Book
• What If Everybody Did This
• Here We Are
• One Earth
• Curious George Plants a Tree
• The Earth and I
• The Curious Garden

SING (Songs/Poems)

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EAT (Snacks)

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• Monthly Holiday Snacks (Sandwiches, Waffles, Pancakes, French Toast, Sugar Cookies, Brownies, Candy, Cake Pops, Donuts, Muffins, Popsicles, Cheese and Lunch Meat)

VISIT  (Visitor/Field Trip Ideas)

• Field Trips