Earth Day Crafts for Kids

Earth Day is coming up soon, so I thought I would share some fun Earth Day Crafts for Kids so you can teach them a little more about “loving our earth” and how important it is to be aware of what is going on around us. My kids love nature, and so when I suggested to my 5-year old that we make a “spring” picture, she got very excited. We used what we had around the house, but you can get many of these supplies at the dollar store (like the tissue paper squares).  We used a ripped piece of cardboard for the trunk of the tree, pipe cleaner for the stems of the flowers and we pulled the silk flowers from a couple of bouquets that we bought at the dollar store. I LOVE how it turned out and my other kids all wanted to make one when they got home from school. It took about 30 minutes for me and her to do together. It is a great Earth Day Craft for Kids and great bonding time for you as well.

Here is how we made our picture:

The first thing you will want to do is take a blue crayon and lightly color a blue background on your picture. It is easier if you do it to start with…

Take a piece of cardboard and carefully pull the two pieces apart. Then you will rip off a piece of the exposed (ridged) cardboard for the trunk. I attached this for my daughter using hot glue so it would stay on better and dry quickly.

Use the small 1″ square tissue papers as the tree leaves, grass, sun and apples. It gives the picture a lot of great texture and it is fun to put together. Just put a bunch of small dots of white glue down (you can go over previous layers to stack it up).

Next, you will take a green pipe cleaner (chenille stem) and cut it into 6-7 pieces. These will be the stems of your flowers. Then take the silk flowers and you will want to help your child attach these with hot glue. It stays on better and dries almost instantly.

At this point we realized that we forgot to color the sky blue, so we took a blue crayon and did the best we could. Kenzie then decided that she wanted to have apples on her tree, so we cut a couple squares of the red tissue paper into twelfths and glued them on the tree.

For the grass we took the 1″ tissue paper squares and cut them into fourths and used that along the bottom. We did two or three layers to get a nice texture and the right coverage.

We then found a cat and a butterfly in our crafting supplies so she wanted to add those. We also cut a few pieces of yellow tissue paper in circles and glued them on for the sun.

I really love how this turned out and can’t wait to help her hang it on her wall so we can all enjoy it. We have also found some other fantastic Earth Day Crafts that you will love to make with your kids!

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