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Beautiful Suncatcher Earth Day Craft for Kids to Celebrate our Planet

Kids can make a BEAUTIFUL Earth Craft to celebrate our planet on Earth Day using coffee filters and following our easy directions.

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 

Earth Day Coffee Filter Suncatcher Craft for Kids: An easy craft to make while learning about the Earth, Planets, Solar system, and celebrating Earth Day.

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

Earth Day Coffee Filter Suncatcher Craft for Kids: An easy craft to make while learning about the Earth, Planets, Solar system, and celebrating Earth Day.

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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.

Earth Day Coffee Filter Suncatcher Craft for Kids: An easy craft to make while learning about the Earth, Planets, Solar system, and celebrating Earth Day.

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).

Earth Day Coffee Filter Suncatcher Craft for Kids: An easy craft to make while learning about the Earth, Planets, Solar system, and celebrating Earth Day.

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!

Earth Day Coffee Filter Suncatcher Craft for Kids: An easy craft to make while learning about the Earth, Planets, Solar system, and celebrating Earth Day.

Earth Day Coffee Filter Suncatcher Craft for Kids: An easy craft to make while learning about the Earth, Planets, Solar system, and celebrating Earth Day.

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

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Comments

  1. Karyn says

    What a pretty craft!! We have done coffee filter art like that, but I love how you added in the continents. So clever!.

    • Katie says

      Hi Karyn, Thanks so much! I like that part too because the kids were free to cut out their own shapes.

  2. Emilie says

    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!

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