Say yes to Earth Day every day! This Earth Day craft with paint chips is fun and easy for kids of all ages. Read on to learn more and make this special spring craft with your kids. Also use for a weather theme or ocean unit too!
Fun Fact: How Much Of The Earth Is Ocean?
The ocean covers 71% of the Earth and makes up 99% of the living space on this planet! WOW! That’s a fun fact for the kids. Did you know that only 1% of all this water is freshwater?
Make sure to take a look at our Ocean science activities and crafts too.
Paint Chip Earth Day Craft
Easy and fun, this collage inspired Earth Day craft allows for a great deal of creativity and flexibility! Go ahead and use a rainbow of colors even!
Get ready to add this colorful Earth Day craft to your lesson plans this season. While you’re at it, make sure to check out these other fun Earth Day activities.
Supplies:
- Blue, green and brown colored paint chip cards
- Printable Earth Template
- Scissors
- Glue
Instructions:
STEP 1. Grab some paint chips from your local hardware store in Earth colors.
STEP 2. Cut the paint chips into small pieces.
STEP 3. Print the earth template and then cut it out.
STEP 4. Glue the pieces onto your Earth – blue representing the ocean and green and brown representing the land.
STEP 5. Make sure to cover the entire map. Your Earth craft is now ready to put on display!
What Is Earth Day?
Wondering what Earth Day is and how it got started? Earth Day is an annual event celebrated worldwide on April 22 to demonstrate support for protecting the environment.
Earth Day started in 1970 in the United States to focus people’s attention on environmental issues. The first Earth Day led to the creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of new environmental laws.
In 1990, Earth Day went global, and today, billions of people worldwide support 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. It offers fun hands-on learning activities, experiments, and arts and crafts that can be used anytime.
Free Printable Earth Day STEM Guide!
More Fun Earth Day Activities For Kids
Check out more Earth Day crafts and art projects, including…
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.
