Earth Day is the perfect time to teach kids how our everyday actions can make the planet happy or sad. This craft uses a smiling Earth and a crying Earth to show good and bad habits. Children will learn how recycling, saving water, and planting trees help the Earth, while littering and wasting resources can hurt it. It’s a fun way to combine art with an important lesson about caring for our world.
What You Need
- Happy Earth and Sad Earth templates (with or without faces)
- Good habits and bad habits templates
- White sheets and green/red colored sheets
- Crayons or markers
- Scissors
- Glue
- Paper strips (green for happy Earth, red for sad Earth)
How to Make
- Prepare the Earths
- Print the happy Earth and sad Earth on white sheets.
- Or print Earth without face features, then draw happy or sad faces yourself.
- Color the Earth using crayons.
- Color the habits
- Print the good and bad habit templates on white sheets.
- Color them with crayons or markers.
- Make the strips
- Print paper strips on green and red sheets.
- Cut out all the Earths, habits, and strips along their outlines.
- Attach the strips
- Paste green strips around the happy Earth.
- Paste red strips around the sad Earth.
- Match the habits
- Guide kids to choose the good habits and paste them at the ends of the green strips.
- Paste the bad habits at the ends of the red strips.
- Teach and display
- Talk with kids about how good habits make Earth happy and bad habits make Earth sad.
- Hang the finished craft in the classroom as a reminder to care for our planet.
Templates:
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