Water Bottle Fish
Use your recycled water bottles and let kids make fish out of them. Using simple materials like tissue paper and glue, kids will enjoy a new perspective on an everyday object.
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Cereal Box Shoes
Recycled cereal boxes have a ton of great uses, and here, the kids can use all the beautiful colors and shapes found on the boxes in combination with their imaginations to become the designer of a fun, unique pair of (cereal box) shoes.
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Interactive Coloring Sheets
We all know how much kids love to color. However, when completed, coloring sheets usually look pretty similar to one another. Kids all want blue skies and green grass (well, don’t we all?), but I have created interactive coloring sheets. This means the kids decide on all the important stuff, like the final designs, the patterns, and the colors. This year, included with my Earth Day interactive coloring sheets are also pattern-filled sheets so that little kids (who might struggle too much with adding in the patterns) can enjoy these activity sheets and prepare for when they can design them on their own.
I’ve used my interactive coloring sheets many times during the brainstorming and planning phases of an art project. Kids can practice their ideas and play around with the shapes and colors before committing them to the “good” paper or using paints. They always appreciate this. Of course, the plan always looks great as finished artwork!
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Earth Day Agamograph
To read about my newest idea for Earth Day are Agamographs made easy. The image changes when you walk from one side of the Agamograph to the other. I have created two designs. The first is an image of the Earth that morphs into a recycling symbol, and the other is an image of raindrops that morph into a tree!
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Recycled Crayons
You know I’m all about making you look awesome(er) to your kids, right? What better way to do this than to make your own crayons?! I mean, honestly, they will think this is très cool (because it is)! Use up all your old broken crayons and make new fun shapes by melting the wax and pouring it into candy molds. This post has a video, so you can easily see how to make these crayons.
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Collaboration Earth Day Poster
It’s fun to decorate your classroom with posters for Earth Day, but if you involve the kids in the process, it’s even MORE fun (for them!) I create collaborative posters for all kinds of occasions. Still, I think Earth Day is particularly remarkable because it encompasses how important it is for everyone to do their part to achieve the desired outcome. Each student must participate and help out with these posters, or else the poster won’t look right with a missing or messed up piece. It’s a powerful message that you hardly have to tell them. They really “get” it all on their own! Keep the poster a surprise until you put it together, and you’ll really make them happy. This resource has two Earth Day poster designs.
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Bottle Top State Flag
Speaking of collaboration, this is the mother of all collaboration projects. Using recycled bottle tops, create your state flag (or perhaps an Earth Day image) to display in your community. It’s easier than it looks, and it involves everyone in one way or another.
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Earth Day Table Posters
My Earth Day Table Posters are small posters (or big coloring pages) that you spread out on a table and have small groups of kids work on together! They are immediately engaging, lead to great discussion and cooperation, and, most of all, they are fun! I enjoy listening to my students talk about who will color which section and what colors they will use. It is a great, calm way to begin or to facilitate any Earth Day discussions you’d like to have with your students. A bonus of these table posters is that when the kids are through, you have a set of beautiful images with which you can adorn your classroom door, bulletin boards, and more!
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I hope you found something in this Earth Day round-up that you can use now or pin for later. Thanks for reading, visiting my site, and, most of all, for making art with your kids! There are always so many ways to use the arts to excite and educate your children.
Jenny K.
