Looking for the BEST Earth Day activities and crafts that your kids will love and won’t take all day to set up and clean up? Then you have come to right place! Check out these 40+ fun and easy activities, sensory play ideas and crafts you can do with toddlers, preschoolers and older kids!

Keep scrolling to watch videos of lots of the activities in action!!

Setting up a few Earth Day activities for your kids is much easier that you think and I am here to help you through with some our the easy ideas I did with my three kids as well as a few other really fun and easy ideas from some amazing bloggers.

What to Talk About?

Earth Day is all about showing our big beautiful planet a little love. Along with of course highlighting environmental consciousness and environmental concerns to the forefront. What does this mean with young kids? It’s about instilling a love for nature and all that it has to offer in your child. Here are some questions you can ask children to help get them thinking about the environment and our planet:

• What is the your favourite thing about Earth?
• Name one thing that goes in the garbage?
• What’s one thing that goes in the recycling?
• Can you name one thing that belong in nature? One thing that doesn’t?
• What one place would you like to visit on Earth?
• Can you name the colours of the planet earth from space?
• What colour is the recycling symbol?

Books

Here is a collection of Earth Books read aloud on YouTube:

• Its Earth Day Story for Kids
• The Earth Book by Todd Parr
• Earth Day Every Day by Lisa Bullard
• How to Help the Earth by the Lorax by Tish Rabe
• Earth Day Alphabet Book

Here is selecion of our favourite Earth Day books:

RELATED… 11 Awesome Earth Day Books

I have organized this amazing list of Earth Day things to do with your kids into two sections:

• Earth Day STEM Activities
• Easy Earth Day Crafts
• Earth Day Activities

Ready time to get to the activities! I hope you will enjoy them as much as my kids did!

Earth Day STEM Activities

DIY Seed Bombs – Teaching Ideas

How to make DIY Seed Bombs – Little Bins for Little Hands

Egg Shell Garden Science Project – Stemsational

Outdoor Earth Day Activity – Days with Grey

Layers of the Earth Project using Playdough – Active Littles

Earth Day Recycled STEAM Project – Little Bins for Little Hands

Earth Day Crafts

Earth Day Sticky Wall – Happy Toddler Playtime

Rock Painted Earth Day Craft – Happy Toddler Playtime

Paper Plate Earth Day Craft for Kids using yarn – Non Toy Gifts

Kitchen Tool Stamping Earth Day Craft – Happy Toddler Playtime

Earth Day Heart Sun Catcher Craft – Happy Toddler Playtime

Gorgeous Newspaper Earth Day – I Heart Crafty Things

Torn Paper Earth Day Craft – Crafts by the Sea

Earth Day Handprint Craft for Kids – Happy Toddler Playtime

Sun Catcher Earth – The Craft Train

Giant Earth Day Craft – Happy Toddler Playtime

Paper Earth Day Craft – The Inspiration Edit

Balloon Stamping Earth Day Art – I Heart Arts N Crafts

Earth Day Yarn Craft – Made with Happy

Earth Day Black Glue Craft – Messy Little Monsters

How to make fun Earth Day Painted Rocks – Twitchetts

Earth Day Paper Plate Craft – Finding Myself Young

Paper Quilled Earth Day Craft for Kids – Projects with Kids

Earth Day Puffy Paint Craft – Sun Shine Whispers

Mess Free Earth Art – Kreative in Life

Hand Print Earth Craft – Simple Everyday Mom

How to Make a Paper Mache Planet Earth – The Purposeful Nest

Daisy Earth Day Craft – Printables 4 Mom

Paper Plate Earth Heart Craft – Simply Kinder

Potato Masher Turtle Craft – Happy Toddler Playtime

Earth Day Activities

Earth Day Play Dough Tray – Happy Toddler Playtime

The Best Earth Day Goop – Little Bin for Little Hands

Earth Day Colour Sorting Activity – Happy Toddler Playtime

Earth Day Yoga Poses – Pink Oatmeal

Planet Earth Big World Play – Happy Toddler Playtime

Fine and Gross Motor Earth Day Activity Ideas – Your Therapy Source

Earth Day Sensory Bin – Happy Toddler Playtime

Water Pollution Experiments for Kids – JDaniel4’s Mom

Earth Day Jokes – Artsy Fartsy

Swamp and Ocean Sensory Bin – Happy Toddler Playtime

Bean Earth Day Sensory Bin – Active Littles

Earth Day Coloring Page – Printable Crush

Earth Day Scavenger Hunt – Happy Toddler Playtime

Earth Day Ocean Sort & Clean Up Sensory Bin – Happy Toddler Playtime

Earth Day Math Printable Worksheets – I Game Mom

Endangered Animals Game – Adventure in a Box

Earth Day Counting Worksheets – The Art Kit Blog

Plant the Trees Sensory Bin – Happy Toddler Playtime

Earth Day Word Search – Crayons and Cravings