Category: Earth Day

On this day, we celebrate Earth Day. I am attaching a poster which you can use to reflect on this day with your children. You might also adopt some of these practices at home, to be able to leave a better Earth for our children. Children will also learn that they need to be responsible in taking care of our planet – every little change/action helps.

These are other activities that you can do with your little ones, related to Earth Day.

As part of the Earth Day celebration, you can also create a Bird-feeder with your little ones. You are encouraged to use recycled materials such as milk cartons to make this craft, so that children will learn that before they throw things away, these things might have another use, thus contributing to let things being thrown away.

Below, are some ideas of how you can do your bird feeder – let the children be creative! It is okay if their bird feeder do not look picture perfect – the most important thing is that children have fun doing the activity.

Looking forward to see the bird feeders that your little ones create.

For this activity you need a large plastic bottle which you need to cut the top part. The children can fill the plastic bottle with some soil/compost (can use a tablespoon to transfer the soil into the bottle and can count how many tablespoons full of soil they added).

Once the children fill the bottle half way through, they can add some seeds such as sunflower seeds or ‘skalora’ and continue to fill the bottle with the remaining soil.

They can also decorate the plastic bottled using recycled stuff such as bottle taps.

Finally, the children need to water their plants and place them in the sun. The plants should start to grow in a few weeks time.

For this activity, you can first brainstorm and discuss what carbon footprint is with the children.

Basically carbon footprint is the amount of carbon dioxide or greenhouse gases that are produced as a result of our daily living.

You can then list some examples that lead to carbon footprint, so that the children would be able to better understand. Some examples include:

Some Eco-friendly points that you can discuss together:

On the 22nd April, Earth day will be celebrated around the world. This year’s theme is about climate change. It is important that from a very young age, we teach our children how to help protect and restore our planet.

Remember, that our children are our future generation.

I will be posting different activities that you can do with your little ones, where they will be learning about recycling, carbon footprint. pollution and global warming.

Hope that you will find the different activity ideas useful.