Earth Day is our annual reminder to slow down and appreciate the bounty of the earth.
The following 50 Earth Day Activities for kids will encourage children to create objects from natural and recycled materials and spend more time outdoors.
Could you use an organized play planner for creative activities? After finding the perfect Earth Day activity, we invite you to join us in TinkerLab Schoolhouse, your online studio for kid-tested art and STEAM activities for children 3-10. Learn more here.
Happy Earth Day!
Earth Day Activities with Natural Materials
- 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 Crafts by Courtney
- These Leaf Necklaces are so sweet, from My Very Educated Mother
- On your next beach trip, collect some Shells and Paint them, from Fantastic Fun and Learning
- Grow Wheat Grass Indoors {the fastest growing plant}
- I can’t get over these beautiful Nature Prints made with Sculpey, from The Artful Parent
- Make leaf sun prints on fabric, TinkerLab
- These Fabric Sunprints is the ultimate of earth day activities since it’s a science experiment and art project wrapped up in one.
- 35 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
- Take your sketch book outdoors for Leaf Printing on Fabric, 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 Bug Hotel, from Laugh Paint Create
- Recycled Garden Collage, from Red Ted Art
- 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. Learn how to survive with almost nothing at timetoprepare.net . 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 bloggers 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
Thanks so much for linking up to my diorama project. You’ve got a wonderful collection of ideas to celebrate Earth Day! Great blog.
thanks for including some of our natural materials posts! happy earf day/week!
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Super fab list! You are amazing Rachelle. Thanks for including some of our ideas. Doesn’t seem like it’s all about lists lately? What is the next trend?
Yep! I think this is an amazing list!
i think it’s good information about earth day and the earth
Thank you for sharing! I love these ideas and pinned them to my pinterest board!
Thank you so much for these ideas. I love the summery feel to them. Great to use too, for garden parties and outdoor hanging out.
This is the best list I’ve seen so far. Thanks Rachelle!
Thanks for saying that, Stephanie! It was fun to put together and I can see it lasting all summer long.
your welcome
I like your ideas
Thanks, these ideas are fantastic and I have reblogged them on my blog!!! 😀
Thanks so much for sharing!
thanks for sharing:) this is what we did with our learning circle for earth day…imagination gardens (for urban living, in Brooklyn:) and plantable seed balls…http://markersandthread.blogspot.com/2013/05/diy-imagination-garden-for-kids.html
Love the list thank you! Just wanted to add that I’ve done the baby food jar votive and they get VERY HOT. They should not be touched or moved by kids.
Excellent list. For the coming earth day, we added your list to our FB page
I stumbled upon your blog following a link from the tiny tikes FB page. The opening Container Fairy Garden photo grabbed my eye, **I** have several of those Dutch houses! Thanks to some trips years ago on KLM flights. — Thanks from some great Earth Day ideas for children.
-Clifton Bencke
PiratesAndParrots.com Outdoors and on-the-water adventures for children.
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Dear Rachelle,
I’m a Waldorf Kindergarten teacher from IL, and I’m thanking you so very much on behalf of all my students and families for this great online resource! Happy Earth Day 2020! Blessings and Good Health!!!
Ms. D.
Rainbow Garden Kindergarten Teacher
The Waldorf School of DuPage, Warrenville, IL
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This list is great! Cuz quarantine we’re all super duper bored. These are pretty fun!
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