Earth Day Activities:
Recycled Puzzles
-Boxes of food items already used
-Scissors
-Tape
  1. Take empty boxes and cut out front of box, then cut into puzzle pieces
  2. Try to put something on the table to help them stick it to the table such as tape, or contact paper
  3. Let them solve puzzles!
Oil Spill Clean Up
-Water
-Blue food dye(optional)
-Some kind of tin or open container to hold water in
-Vegetable oil(Olive oil would work too)
-Various materials children can use to try and soak up oil(cotton swabs, cotton balls, sand toys like bucket and sifters, ect)

  1. Fill container with water and add in blue food dye.
  2. Pour oil into water
  3. Have child predict if they can clean the water and then have them test their prediction.
Recycled Shape Art
-Various containers, toilet paper rolls, caps, bottles, ect.
-Paint
-Paper
  1. Have children collect materials they would like to use
  2. Dip items into paint and create their masterpiece
Water Pollution Exploration
-Container
-Water
-Sponge cut out like fish
-Various hazards in cups(dishsoap, green colored water, trash(marshmallows), sugar, coffee grounds, ect.
  1. Cut out your sponge into a fish and place water and fish in container.
  2. Explore the hazards that you will use and have the children predict if you will be able to get the fish clean and what might happen to a real fish if they ate all of these things.
  3. Have them pour in hazards and at the end see if their predictions were right.
I Promise to Help the Earth by...
-Construction paper
-Paint
-Pencil
-Scissors
  1. Using construction paper cut out a blue circle and with your paint on your hand, press onto paper.
  2. Glue that onto a whole sheet of construction paper and at the bottom write the prompt above.
  3. Have students write what they would do to help the Earth. For younger students they can trace using highlighter or by doing dots.
Earth Day Dirt Cups
-Cups
-Gummy worms
-Oreos
-Chocolate Pudding

  1. At bottom of cup put chocolate pudding and fill half way
  2. Crush Ore's well and create a layer on top of pudding
  3. Put 2-3 gummy worms on top of Oreos