Earth Day Craft for Kids

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Earth Day is on April 22. This year, celebrate our planet with a special environmental craft for your child. This eco activity incorporates nature, the environment, and a bonus literacy lesson.

Suggested Age Range

This arts and crafts activity is great for kids who are between four and six years of age. Try adapting the steps for your child’s specific age and abilities.

Materials Needed to Create Earth Day Art

• Cardboard rectangle (reuse the front or back of a cereal or cracker box, or cut apart a larger moving box)
• Four twigs or many small leaves (make sure that these are fallen natural items, do not pick them off of live plants/trees
• Clear drying, non-toxic glue
• Pencil

Steps to Create Kids’ Earth Day Art

1. Gather the natural materials needed. Make this fun for your child! Help her to search for twigs or fallen leaves. Explain to her why she is looking for fallen leaves and twigs, not live ones and that she should never pull or tear live plants apart.
2. Help your child to draw a letter E (for earth) onto the cardboard with a pencil. Point out the lines that make up the letter shapes, and discuss what words begin with E (Earth, environment, ecosystem).
3. Ask your child to ‘draw’ over the pencil lines with glue lines.
4. Have your budding naturalist to place the plant and twig items over the glue E lines.
5. Set aside to dry.

Try this craft on Earth Day or any other day for a fun art activity! Pair it with other Earth Day events, games, crafts, and more as your child learns to love and care for her planet.

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