Earth Day Crafts for Kindergarten

Are you looking for a fun way to celebrate Earth Day with your kindergarten students? Crafts are a great option! These Earth Day crafts for kindergarten are an engaging way to help your students learn more about how we can care for the planet.

The Benefits of Crafts in Kindergarten

Crafts can be such a helpful tool for learning in the kindergarten classroom! Here are just a few of the benefits of adding crafts to your lesson plans:

• Increased Engagement: Crafts can help your students stay engaged in learning. They are always so motivated and excited to complete these activities!

• Strengthen Fine Motor Skills: Young students can always use more practice with fine motor skills. Crafts are a fun way to improve hand strength, coordination, and more! 

• Practice Following Directions: Craft projects often require students to follow directions in a certain order. This is great practice for young children who are still working on following multi-step directions.

• Build Confidence: When students see their completed projects on display, it creates a sense of pride and accomplishment for them. This can be a much-needed boost in confidence for our young students!

• Review Academic Concepts: Repetition is important for students who are learning new academic concepts. Crafts are an engaging way to give students more repetition and practice with new skills. 

Earth Day Crafts for Kindergarten

With all of those benefits in mind, here are three Earth Day crafts that your students will love! These crafts help students practice fine motor and academic skills in different ways. No matter which crafts you choose to use, you’ll be able to help your students learn more about how they can keep the planet healthy.

You can use these crafts for morning work activities, centers, small groups, or even for an Earth Day celebration in your classroom. No matter how you plan to use these activities in your daily routine, your students will enjoy these Earth Day crafts!

3D Earth Buddy Craft

This 3D craft is such a fun activity for kindergarten students! They won’t even realize that they’re hard at work improving their fine motor skills as they complete this craft.

First, students can paint the earth using cotton swabs. Students can strengthen their pincer grasp as they add the paint to the paper. Plus, it gives a great texture to the final product.

Next, students can create accordion-folded arms and legs for their buddy! Then they can cut out and attach eyes, hands, and feet.

The next step is to attach a stand to the back to help the craft stand up on its own. These completed crafts can make a great Earth Day celebration for the bookshelves or desks in your classroom. You could also mount them on a bulletin board to create an Earth Day display!

Earth Day Pop-Up Book

The next craft idea that your students will love to create is this Earth Day pop-up book. It’s an interactive activity that teaches students more about the Three R’s.

The front cover of the pop-up book is a hand-strengthening Earth craft. Students can tear blue and green paper to create Earth for the front cover. As they tear the small pieces of paper for this craft, students are improving their fine motor skills and hand strength.

After they have completed the front cover, students can color, cut, and assemble the rest of the pop-up book. On each page, students will review one of the Three R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Students can color and sort pictures that go on each page, as well as attach a pop-up header to the page. These pop-up elements are so engaging for young students!

On the back page, students can write and illustrate a sentence that describes how they will help the Earth. Your students will be so excited to take home their books to share what they’ve learned about helping the planet. This is a great way to encourage families to talk about what students are learning at school!

Earth Day Mystery Pictures

Do your students love to color when it’s time to work on crafts? These mystery pictures combine academic review, fine motor skills, and Earth Day celebration in one easy-to-prep activity!

For each of the three Earth Day mystery pictures, students will complete a short writing task in order to determine the code for coloring the activity. Since these mystery pictures are completely editable, you can decide what task to have students complete. For example, you could fill in letters, numbers, sight words, spelling words, or even Earth Day words! You can easily customize this activity for any skill that you’d like your students to practice.

Mystery pictures are always a hit in the kindergarten classroom! Students are so excited to see the mystery picture emerge as they color in each square according to the code. Many students who are resistant to coloring activities are motivated by mystery pictures! Since they can color in the picture one square at a time, students aren’t overwhelmed or distracted by the whole picture.

Printable Earth Day Activities for Kindergarten

You can find all of these fun crafts in one easy-to-download set of Earth Day activities for kindergarten. This set of printable activities includes seven resources that you can use to teach your students more about the importance of caring for the planet. You can use these printable activities to put together engaging and effective Earth Day lesson plans.

Would you like to take a closer look at all of the Earth Day activities included in this resource? You can find it in the A Spoonful of Learning shop or on TPT. Just click on a button below to check out everything that’s included in this printable set of Earth Day crafts and activities.

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