Bring on the Earth Day celebrations! Create this simple Earth craft for the perfect Earth Day activity this season. Make your own paper Earth globe ornaments to decorate at home or in the classroom. Download our free printable earth template and find out how to make this easy earth craft with your kids.
3D Paper Earth Craft
Supplies:
- Printable Earth Template
- Colored markers
- Scissors
- Stapler
- Glue
- String
- Tape
Instructions:
STEP 1: Print out the Earth template above.
STEP 2: Color in the Earths with markers.
STEP 3: Cut out the Earths. Then glue two Earths together back to back.
STEP 4: Fold each Earth in half.
STEP 5: Stack all the folded Earths on top of each other. Staple the layers together twice down the middle.
STEP 6: Spread apart the Earths so they create a dimensional shape.
STEP 7. Tape the string along both sides of the staples and use it to hang your paper Earth ornament.
What Is Earth Day?
Wondering what Earth Day is and how it got started? Earth Day is an annual event celebrated around the world on April 22 to demonstrate support for the protection of the environment.
Earth Day started in 1970 in the United States as a way to focus people’s attention on environmental issues. The first Earth Day led to the creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and saw new environmental laws passed.
In 1990 Earth Day went global, and today billions of people around the world participate in support of the protection of our Earth. Together, let’s help look after our planet!
Earth Day is easy to celebrate at home or in the classroom, with fun hands-on learning activities, experiments, and arts and crafts that you can use anytime.
Free Printable Earth Day STEAM Guide!
More Fun Earth Day Activities For Kids
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Printable Earth Day STEM Activities Pack
Celebrate Earth Day with STEM! 220+ Pages of Earth Day science activities and STEM projects for kids that are easy to set up and fit into your available time, even if it’s limited!
STEAM Mini Pack added three hands-on activities for acid rain, stormwater runoff, and carbon footprints!
- Printable Earth Day theme STEM activities that are simple but engaging for home or classroom. Perfect for K-3/4 and beyond but easily adaptable to many skill levels.
- Dive into simple background science explanations to share with kids while they explore hands-on and playful experiments, projects, and activities such as cleaning up oil spills, exploring water filters, and more!
- Engaging Earth Day Engineers pack with theme activities, journal pages, and design process steps! Learn about the design process and think like an engineer while you design and build a better recycling can and more!
- Easy to gather supplies makes these STEM activities ideal when you have limited resources available. Specialty activities include growing a grass head, making an insect hotel, DIY birdseed ornaments, and more!
- Additional STEM activities also Include a recycle sort, brick building ideas, puzzles, and screen-free coding activities.
- Earth Day Bingo Activity Pack is included as well.
