Earth Day is coming up in just a couple of days. We’ve been focusing this entire week on sharing new craft ideas that you can make with your kids.
Our Earth Day crafts are easy and fun. From creating our planet on paper plates (paper plate Earth craft) to learning about reducing, reusing and recycling, with happy Earth sad Earth activity or ways to take care of Earth coloring page.
The collection also includes a popular Earth Day art project that is perfect to try at home or in the classroom, if you are a teacher.
More Earth Day crafts for kids:
Our Earth craft is about holding the planet in our hands and showing it how much we care about it. The template I created comes with boy and girl option and with big patterns that area easy to cut by little hands. Preschoolers will be able to easily make this craft and older kids will enjoy it too.
SAVE WITH BUNDLES
This craft is part of an amazing Earth Day craft bundle. Make sure to check it out.
Our Earth craft
Supplies:
- Our Earth template
- Cardstock paper: blue, green, red, white and two more colors of your choice (one for the face and hands, the other for the hair)
- Scissors
- Glue
How to make our Earth craft
The Earth template comes with two versions:
1. Option 1 – print the pattern directly on colored paper and cut them out.
2. Option 2 – cut out the patterns and trace them on corresponding colored paper.
This way you can easily craft with just one or two kids as well as with a classroom full of students.
Step by step directions
Start by gluing the hair at the top of the head. If you’re choosing the girl, glue the ponytail at the back of the head.
Glue the eyes onto the face.
Glue the continents onto the Earth.
Glue the head at the top of the Earth.
Glue the hands as if holding the Earth.
Glue the heart in the middle of the Earth.
