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Earth Day Art
Contact_FullName: Barb Contact_Email: bzuber@hammontonps.org Area: earth day art Idea: Our Earth Draw a large circle on a sheet of 12x18 construction paper. Provide blue and green paint for children to spongepaint the circle. Pull a part cotton balls and gently place on top- clouds. I usually add the caption, "The Earth We Love." Looks really cute when finished. Contact_FullName: Huskerteach Contact_Email: dbosle@cmocn.org Area: Earth Day-Art or Science Idea: Earthcakes Cover the work surface with newspaper. Place a tub of each of the following on the art table or floor: sand, dirt, salt, gravel. Have small pitchers of water plus old bowls and spoons nearby. Let each child concoct an earthcake by choosing some of the materials in the tubs, mixing them in a bowl with water. Let the earthcakes dry. Have the children collect items on a walk to decorate their cakes, such as twigs, grass, stones, etc. Contact_FullName: Contact_Email: date:: Area: Earth Day - craft Idea: Have children bring in a empty cereal box. Have children paint cereal box and attach the letter "L" for litter. Go for a walk and gather litter cleaning up the neighborhood. Sort the litter when you return with the children in playground into the correct containers for recycling. (i.e. newspaper, cans, glass, etc...) Contact_FullName: Dee Contact_Email: poohprincs@aol.com date:: 04/11/02 Area: Earth Day-Art Idea: We made "Earth Day Necklaces" (or you could make bracelets) with our 3-5 year olds. It is a two day project. You need clean dirt (a few cups), glue, paperclips(1 per child), yarn, green and blue paint. First you mix the dirt and glue to a nice moist consistency (maybe 3 parts dirt and 1 part glue) just enough glue to keep the dirt together. Children roll about 1-2 teaspoonfuls of the dirt into small balls with their hands. Stick the paperclip in the top of the ball. Let harden and dry overnight. Day 2 ..When dry paint with green and blue paints. Put the string through the paperclip and wear for necklace or bracelet. If worn around the neck please watch child carefully for safety reasons so the necklace doesn't get caught on something. Contact_FullName: Colleen Contact_Email: jettsetfam@aol.com date:: 03/24/02 Area: Earth Day Art Idea: To celebrate Earth Day, I make Recycle Paint Prints with my preschoolers. First, I collect some interesting plastic recyclable containers. I also have the kids bring in something that can be recycled. At the art table, set out trays of tempera paint and white paper. The kids dip the bottom of the containers in the paint and make prints on the paper. You would be surprised by the shapes they will make. Some pop bottles (Coke) even look like flowers!! Have fun!!
10-6-00Have child make their own world! Using green and blue water (food coloring), have children use an eyedropper to drip colors onto a coffee filter. They love watching the coffee filter absorb and spread the colors. Looks like the Earth when finished!
8-24-00LITTLE EARTHS We make "little earths" with: Coffee filters and blue and green colored water (with food color) and eyedroppers 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 2000___.
8-24-00Trash Monster Supplies: 2 Paper Grocery Bags Pipe Cleaners Construction Paper 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 thru 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. ---submitted by Barb G. in Iowa. This idea was taken from the book Every Day is Earth Day by Kathy Ross.
4-18-00Every year we have an art festival. We celebrate recycling and how it saves the earth one way we do this is by asking the children to recycle at home. They bring in their recycled products to school and we make beautiful art mosaics out of then they just create their own using partners or groups and they can glue paint tape what ever they may want to use or all three and then we have a display set up so the parents can visit their child's art work.
4-15-00Cooperative Earths Materials needed: Circle patterns, blue, green, brown tempera paint, smocks, a partner for each child. Introduce the children to the Earth by showing them a globe. Point out the different colors on the globe - and what each color represents. Be sure to point out the amount of blue. Have the children paint their circles blue. When finished with blue - the children have a partner. On one partners Earth drop brown tempera paint - on the other partners drop green tempera paint. The two place each others Earths together (face down) and press - When lift up - they will have an impression of the Earth made with a friend.
Date: 2-25-00For a cooperative Earth Day project, cut a large circle of butcher paper. Draw a general outline of continents on it. Put out green and blue paint on paper plates and give children wooden spools to use for painting. Encourage them to use green inside the continent areas (for land) and blue outside (for water). When complete, this will make a really neat representation of our planet Earth.
2-20-00Earth Day Bracelet. Cut a two inch wide strip of clear contact paper. Cut the length to make a bracelet. Attach sticky Velcro to to the ends, so your bracelet can go on and off. The children wear their bracelets sticky side out. Go on a nature walk. They can put pieces of grass, flowers, weeds, feathers or anything they find on the nature walk. When you come in put the other piece of contact paper over your bracelet. Discuss with the children what they found on the nature walk. You can do this a simpler way by just putting masking tape sticky side out, on the children's wrists. The clear contact looks so much better.
Date: 1-30-00After lunch, collect all items that were thrown away. Such as plastic bags, wrappers, juice boxes or bottles, yogurt and pudding containers, plastic ware, paper napkins, any one-use and disposable items. Rinse out any dirt items. With these items make a group collage or bulletin board. At top of collage using newspaper, cut out letters for the heading " Let's make our lunches trash less" Talk to the children as you are making the collage about all the items that were thrown away. Talk about how everyone can change how the lunches are packed. Listen and record what the children say. Adult suggests could be, use washable containers for drinks , sandwiches and other items in lunch. Use cloth napkins and silverware... The children came up with some great ideas and the parents get to see how much garbage thrown away in one day.
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Stuff a white paper lunch sack with newspaper, insert a paper towel tube into the open end of the sack and put a rubber band around it to hold it together. This makes the puppets head and handle. Decorate by adding cut strips of newspaper hair, aluminum foil balls for eyes, red foam smiles cut from meat trays, and anything else you think would add to the project. We call our puppets Recycling Rita or Rick.
2-17-00For older children 5-6 you can discuss recyclable materials and have them cut out pictures from magazines and use real materials such as newspaper and plastic to make a collage.
Date: 2-2-00The Rain Stick (Another neat way to recycle paper towel tubes...) I used paper towel rolls to make Rain Sticks for a 2nd grade class. We first read a book about The Rain Stick, then we made our own like this: You will need: Paper towel rolls Brown packing tape (or any kind of tape you can paint on) Brown tempera paint Toothpicks White glue Rice I pre-poked holes in them (a lot of holes) before the kids started to work on it and I also covered one end of the roll with tape. Use tape you can paint on. The kids then painted their stick with brown tempera paint. Let the stick dry then have the kids put toothpicks through one hole and out another. Glue both ends of the toothpick. The whole idea is to have the toothpicks going in at different angles to make the required sound. Have an adult cut off any protruding ends of the toothpicks. Each child then fills their roll with rice. I had them decide on their own how much to use; just have them put the rice in a little at a time and have them flip it back and forth so they could hear the "rain" sound they wanted. (It won't take a lot of rice though.) Tape up the other end with paint-able tape and, there you have it, a rain stick!!!!!
Date: 1-31-00There are packing pieces made out of starch that when slightly wet, stick together. you need: packing pieces, shirt cardboard, sponges wet with colored water. The children are instructed to touch the packing pieces onto the wet sponges then stick them onto the cardboard and to each other to build interesting and creative structures. (they do not need to be very wet to stick to each other)
Date: 1-27-00Cut out a circle shape and let the children paint it blue. This represents water. The next day, paint the children's hand green and let them put their hand prints on top of the water to represent land.
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