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Animal Matching
Cut out pictures of animals. On paper, write out the sounds that each animal makes (i ...
Type: Activity: 8575

Avacado Tree
Remove the pit from the Avacado. You do not have to peel the "skin" off the pit, it ...
Type: Activity: 7044

Budding Spring Tree
Give each child a sheet of paper with a brown tree drawn on it. They add the spring b ...
Type: Craft: 8577

Coffee Filter Earth
First have the child lay the coffee filter on a newspaper or paper plate. Mix a cup o ...
Type: Craft: 7523

Cupcake Spring Flowers
This is a simple and easy flower for little ones to make. You can have them just make ...
Type: Craft: 7369

Cupcake Spring Flowers 2
Slightly flatten out cupcake liners (3 fit nicely on an 8 X 10 sheet of construction ...
Type: Craft: 7811

Earth Day Art
I do this in my class for one of our Earth Day projects.We put on our special gloves, ...
Type: Activity: 7148

Earth Day Clean-up
Any day will do...not just Earth day! Set a day and time and then network with the f ...
Type: Activity: 7149

Earth Day Cooking Project
Dirt Cups: Cover bottom of cups with crumbled oreos. Mix pudding. Pour into cups ...
Type: Recipe: 8339

Earth Day Egg Heads
After cracking eggs in half to use them, save the shells! Rinse them, and holding th ...
Type: Activity: 7150

Earth Day Flowers
Snap each child with your camera and enlarge on computer. Have each child paint flow ...
Type: Craft: 7553

Earth Day Snack Cup Project
Recycling isn't just for grown-ups! It also means re-using things we might normally ...
Type: Activity: 7151

Earth Day Theme activities
Children learn about taking caring of the earth. Learn about habitats -- show pictur ...
Type: Activity: 7152

Earth Resource Wheel
Separate one plate into 3 sections. Students illustrate and label with 3 major resou ...
Type: Activity: 7153

Edible Earth
Prepare a rice crispy treat mixture by combining rice crispy cereal, butter or margar ...
Type: Recipe: 8346

Garbage Dump
You may want to go for a garbage walk....explaining that garbage does not go on the g ...
Type: Activity: 7201

Handprint Flower
Paint child's hand with yellow paint, press onto blue paper. Paint a line of green pa ...
Type: Craft: 8570

I Love the Earth
Draw a circle (large enough for a hand print to fit in) Color the circle blue. Appl ...
Type: Craft: 7654

Mooving to help our Friendly Earth
Allow children to eat the center and bottom of oreo cookies and collect the tops to r ...
Type: Other: 8206

Paper Circle Bugs
Have children trace around the drinking cup or jar onto construction paper. Cut out c ...
Type: Craft: 8573

Pom Pom Flower Magnet
Arrange the five pom-poms around the single pom-pom of a different color and glue tog ...
Type: Craft: 8572

Popcorn Spring Flowers
Make popcorn, then color with different color tempra paints. Make sure to tell the ch ...
Type: Craft: 7812

Spring Flower Garden
Have children make 5 or 6 paper flowers. Let them be creative!! Break out the glitter ...
Type: Craft: 7810

Spring Pots
Let your kids paint clay pots and then plant plants in them. I used tempera paint and ...
Type: Craft: 7815

Thumbprint Shamrocks
Dip child's thumb in green paint and press onto paper. Repeat to make three and four ...
Type: Craft: 8571

Ziplock Butterfly
Give each child several small strips of colored construction paper. Have children tea ...
Type: Craft: 7884

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