Earth Day is right around the corner on April 22nd so to start celebrating we made an Earth Day Coffee Filter craft to hang on our window. Children can learn about the earth as they paint oceans and create continents. Once the craft is done kids can stand back and admire the beauty of the Earth which is a perfect time to remind children the responsibility we all have of keeping the Earth clean! See all of our activities here: Earth Day Activities
Suggested Earth Day Books:
The EARTH Book (affiliate link)
How to Help the Earth-by the Lorax (affiliate link)
Why Should I Recycle?(affiliate link)
Earth Day Coffee Filter Suncatcher Craft
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Supplies:
Black craft paper
Coffee filters
Water colors
Paintbrush
Glue
Directions:
Have child paint the coffee filter the colors of the ocean and set it aside to dry.
Have child look at a map or globe and cut out continents. (This reminded me of our World Map Activities that we learned about continents).
Have child glue their continents to the coffee filter and set it aside to dry. Once dry hang the earth craft in the window and enjoy!
More Earth Day Activities
Easy Earth Day Sensory Play (Natural Beach Living)
Ways to Recycle Activities for Kids Play Ideas (Little Bins for Little Hands)
Water Filtration Experiment (Teach Beside Me)
Earth Day Science: Bug Search Experiment (True Aim)
Thanks for crafting with us today. If you enjoyed this craft please pin & share it with others and search below to find another related craft or activity to go along with this one! Love, Katie & the Kiddos
What a pretty craft!! We have done coffee filter art like that, but I love how you added in the continents. So clever!.
Hi Karyn, Thanks so much! I like that part too because the kids were free to cut out their own shapes.
Thanks so much for sharing! We have always done the adorable coffee filters but haven’t added the continents like that! Thank you for sharing! Can’t wait to try with our Creative Tots preschoolers!
Hi Emilie, Thanks so much! I hope everyone has tons of fun crafting!