To keep your moss ball healthy, simply spray it with water every couple of days. Finish with a loop of yarn and hang it in a sunny window. All you do is squish pre-soaked sphagnum moss into a tight ball, wrap it tightly with blue yarn or strips of discarded T-shirts, layer more moss and more yarn, etc., until you’ve created an Earth-shaped orb. Kids who love getting their hands dirty will particularly love this craft. Pay tribute to our lovely planet on Earth Day with these fuzzy moss balls. This project is best for older students who have the patience and dexterity necessary to carefully roll their magazine strips and glue them together. We love Earth Day crafts that result in a practical object you can use around the house. Teach your kids to repurpose old material that would otherwise end up in the landfill by putting together a cozy quilt.
Textiles make up a huge portion of municipal solid waste- over 16 million tons per year. Then loop a piece of twine or yarn around the two cylinders and hang your bug hotel from a tree branch or fence. Make sure to pack the organic material tightly. Cut a two-liter plastic bottle into two cylinders, then stuff it with sticks, pine cones, bark, or any other natural material. Construct a bug hotel.Ĭreate a cozy place for all the creepy-crawlies to hang out. Attach a ribbon at the top to hang your wreath. Then attach natural items into the crevices and secure with clear fishing line or hot glue. To make the wreath forms, braid together strips of old T-shirts and form them into a circle. Take your kids on a nature walk to gather interesting leaves, flowers, berries, etc. As the seed bombs receive sun and rain, the paper will eventually compost and the seeds will germinate. Let them dry, then toss them in the ground. Blend together used scraps of construction paper, water, and wildflower seeds in a food processor, then form them into tiny muffins. Give back to Mother Earth with these easy-to-make seed bombs. Check out our list of the best upcycled crafts for Earth Day or any day, and give some of them a try! 1.
Challenge your students to create something unique and wonderful from preexisting items like magazines, plastic water bottles, tin cans, egg cartons, and more. While recycling breaks down old items in order to create something new, upcyling makes something new from an existing object in its current state.
It’s important to teach students the environmental benefits of recycling, like conserving energy and natural resources and reducing air and water pollution, all year long. Earth Day is fast approaching (April 22), though there really is never a bad time to celebrate Mother Earth.
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