7 Earth Day Activities and Snacks for the Primary Classroom

This Earth Day craft was super easy to do and really quite pretty in person. It uses materials from your recycling bin and scrap paper box and gives you a chance to chat about Earth Day with your artist as they create.  So easy to make, all you need is paper, crayons and a paper punch. See more about how to make this planet earth over at            No Time for Flash Cards. 

1.  Recycle   Here is a wonderful chance to talk about recycling and re-purposing AND using paper from your scrap box.   Students can make cards, books, bookmarks, and creative art projects.  See what ideas your students have about recycling and re-purposing right in the classroom.  

 2.  Make an Earth Day Snack that is Healthy and fun to make. 

Gather these healthy food items: celery, cherry tomatoes, kiwi, grapes, apple slices, peanut butter, oranges, etc.  Talk about the different bugs and insects that live in the earth.  How do they help the earth? How do they help us?  What size are they? What colors? What work do they do? After your class discussion, start to make your little creatures with the food items for snack.  More questions: Is this a healthy snack? Why do you think so? Why should we eat healthy?    You might wish to make this wonderful Earth Day Tree Snack. Use pretzels for the trunk and branches. Heart shape cucumber slices for the leaves and one tomato heart. 

3.  Plant some wheat grass.  Students learn about living things

when they can be involved.  Caring for plants is always a great activity with children because they learn responsibility and kindness. Growing wheat grass is fast!

You can find more about growing wheat grass over at Make and Takes.  

 4.  Engage your class in a 'book swap'.  Each child brings in 1 or 2 books they wish to swap.  Students talk about the books they brought it.  This is a great activity for 'listen, look and share". Listening to book recaps and summaries before students swap the books provides interest and creates a book community in your classroom.  

5.  Clean-UP Our School Grounds on Earth Day - Adventure outdoors for picking up any trash around the school grounds.  Work with the buddy system. Each student has a buddy as they walk around the school to find any items or trash to be cleaned up.  

6.  Conserve resources:  turn out lights when not needed, repurpose school supplies, 

 7. Make Art on Earth Day:  Show in any art form what Earth Day, Everyday means to you. 

Earth Day Art

 8. Make a chart on the many ways we can recycle, reuse, reduce at home and at school.  Brainstorm the many practices we should include when thinking about caring for the earth. 

Think Globally, but Act Locally 

What does that saying  mean?  Talk about how local people and their actions help everyone.  

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