Little Earths
added 4-29-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need: Coffee filters, blue and green colored
water (with food color), and eyedroppers
Directions: Fill a muffin tin with blue water
and green colored water. The children use the eyedropper to pick up the
water and place it on the coffee filter. (great for small motor
control). When they dry, they look like the Earth...at times I label...
Happy Earth Day 20__.
Marble
Painting Earths added
4-29-98 Original Author
Unknown
Need: Blue
Construction paper, Pie Pan, Blue Paint, Green Paint, and a globe.
Directions:
Have circles cut out of blue construction paper to fit just inside of
a pie pan. Have the children put a marble into some blue paint and
into some green paint. Use a spoon to take it out... move the pie pan
back and forth and create "an earth" We then talk about what the
green stands for and what the blue stands for. (I show them a globe
first.. and we talk about all the different names for the earth. (i.e.
world globe earth etc)
Litter Bags
added 4-29-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Lunch bag, markers or crayons, and stickers.
Directions:
Have the children decorate a white lunch bag with markers or
crayons and stickers. Use the bags to collect the littler, or take
the bags home, to hang in the family car.
Mural
Forest added
4-29-98 Original Author
Unknown
Need: Butcher
paper, green paint, brown marker, child's hand
Directions:
To make a tree, press a child's hand into green tempera paint. Keeping
the fingers & thumb close together, press the hand on a roll
piece of white butcher paper, making the tree, leaves and branches.
Have the children print their hands as many times as they would like
on the same paper to make a forest. Use a brown maker sideways,
print the child's names under their trees to make the trunks.
Trash
Collage added
4-29-98 Original Author
Unknown
Need:
paper, scraps, candy wrappers, junk mail, etc.
Directions:
Use thrown away paper, labels, scraps cut from junk mail,
everything you can find that is typically thrown away - to make a
collage.
Trash
Monster added
4-29-98 Original Author
Unknown
Need: Paper Grocery Bags, Pipe Cleaners, and Construction
Paper
Directions: Get 2 large paper grocery bags
for each child. Cut a large oval out of the bottom of one. Slide it
into the other bag, open end first, so that the oval is on top. The
oval will be the monster's mouth. Decorate the top of the bag with construction
paper eyes, mouth, hair, whatever. Poke a small hole on the top
center, about 2" from the edge, and another on the back, about
3" from the top. Run a pipe cleaner through the two holes and
twist together to make a handle. Then take the monsters for a walk, and
"feed" them any trash you find. Also looks cute for a trash
bag in the child's room. To empty and reuse, untwist the pipe cleaner
and pull the top bag out, empty and replace.
Earths
added 4-29-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
white paper, paint, sponges, paper towel
Directions:
Cut out large circles out of white paper, and give the children blue,
turquoise blue, and green paints. Use little sponges to put these
three colors onto their earth, by mixing the colors around the paper
it does really look like earth! Then to make the effect just one better,
we took paper towels, crumpled them up, and blotted dry our Earths.
The effect was great.
Earth Sun Catcher
added 3-13-99 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Glue, Blue Food Coloring, Margarine Tub Lid, Brown Permanent Marker,
Yarn or String
Directions: Pour
about 1/3 cup of white glue into a cup, and add about 5 drops of food
coloring, stir well. This will dry much darker, so don't add any more
color than this. Fill a margarine tub lid with the glue, and let it
dry completely. This could take
several days, even a week if there is a lot of humidity. When it is
totally dry, peel the blue circle out of the lid. With a brown
permanent marker, draw on the land forms. This will usually stick to
the glass window, but if it doesn't, punch a hole in the top and
thread a piece of yarn or ribbon through it to hang.
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