Kids will love making this Easy Earth Day Craft with supplies you already have on hand to celebrate Earth Day on April 22nd. This festive spring art project will be a special keepsake for years to come!
Easy and Fun Earth Day Craft for Kids
Making your own Earth character is easy and fun! This cute craft is perfect for kids of all ages, especially preschoolers and kindergartners. It’s inexpensive, mess-free, and best of all, we made a printable template to use at home or school.
Materials Needed for the Earth Day Activity
- Earth Day Craft Printable Template
- White cardstock
- Markers, crayons, or colored pencils
- Scissors
- Gluestick
Directions for the Simple Earth Day Character
Print, color, cut, and glue! Featuring easy-to-find supplies such as cardstock, colored pencils, and glue, this cute Earth Day craft is easy, fun, and inexpensive to assemble. It’s perfect for school or home!
1. Download and Print the Easy Earth Day Craft Template. Our Easy Earth Day Craft template is available in our Teachers Pay Teachers shop! After purchasing the template, download it to your device and then print it on white cardstock.
2. Color the Templates. Use markers, crayons, or colored pencils to color in the Earth, arms, legs, feet, hands, eyes, and mouth. We used our favorite Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils.
3. Cut the Templates. Use scissors to cut out all the parts of the template. There are so many fun paper wiggly eyes for kids to choose from! If desired, fold the arms and legs into an accordion shape so they are bouncy!
4. Put the Craft Together. Now that you have all the pieces cut, it’s time to put together your Earth character! Use a glue stick to secure all of the pieces together.
5. Your Easy Earth Day Craft is Finished! Your Easy Earth Day Craft is complete. Use tape to hang the craft on the refrigerator or make a banner for your mantle or classroom!
Take it Further
- Pair this craftivity with a book about Earth Day.
- Pick up litter around your school or home.
- Plant native plants for pollinators.
- Host a zero-waste lunch challenge!
- Go on a nature scavenger hunt.
More Earth Day Project Ideas for Kids
- Recycled Paper Seed Cards
- Toilet Paper Roll Bird Feeder
- How to Make a Bug Hotel
- Fun Outdoor Arts and Crafts Ideas for Kids
- Reycled Playdough Lid Caterpillar Suncatcher
- Earth Day Balloon Stamping via I Heart Arts N Crafts
Easy Earth Day Craft for Kids
Kids will love making this Easy Earth Day Craft with supplies you already have on hand to celebrate Earth Day on April 22nd. This festive spring art project will be a special keepsake for years to come!
Materials
- Earth Day Craft Printable Template
- White cardstock
- Markers, crayons, or colored pencils
- Gluestick
Tools
- Scissors
Instructions
- Our Easy Earth Day Craft template is available in our Teachers Pay Teachers shop! After purchasing the template, download it to your device and then print it on white cardstock.
- Use markers, crayons, or colored pencils to color in the Earth, arms, legs, feet, hands, eyes, and mouth.
- Use scissors to cut out all the parts of the template. There are so many fun paper wiggly eyes for kids to choose from! If desired, fold the arms and legs into an accordion shape so they are bouncy!
- Now that you have all the pieces cut, it’s time to put together your Earth character! Use a glue stick to secure all of the pieces together.
- Your Easy Earth Day Craft is complete. Use tape to hang the craft on the refrigerator or make a banner for your mantle or classroom!
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