This Earth Day craft for kids is a super fun way to celebrate our planet! Even the youngest of kids can enjoy using simple resources at home to create one giant beautiful Earth! Even better, use recycled paper! This Earth Day craft is a great opportunity to talk about the main colors of planet earth – blue and green – and what they are – the land and sea! This talking point makes a great segue on how human beings can work together to keep our land and sea clean and healthy!

Ripping Up Paper is a Great Fine Motor Exercise!

This activity not only sparks important environmental conversations, but the act of ripping up the blue and green paper is awesome for fine motor skill strengthening and hand-eye coordination! Fine motor skills are incredibly important and ripping paper is a fun way to strengthen those small muscles!

How to Set Up This Earth Day Craft for Kids

Here’s how you can make and create this fun Earth Day Craft for Kids. In this video, you’ll see how easy it can be to show the kids what the Earth looks like with just a few simple supplies that you likely already have at home.

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• Adhesive Paper
• Permanent Markers
• Craft Knife

• 2 Pieces of Cardboard (identical sizes)
• Green/Blue Paper
• Round Bowl and Pencil (for tracing)
• Tape
• Adhesive Paper
• Permanent Markers
• Craft Knife

Step 5

Outline the land and the sea in marker.

Step 6

Tear up the blue and green paper and mix them up in a bowl.

Step 7

Have the kids sort and stick the pieces.

Step 1

Trace a circle using the bowl and pencil. 

Step 2

Use the knife to cut the circle out. (you’ll want to do this part so it’s safe!)

Step 3

Put a piece of the sticky paper and stick it onto the round part, sticky side up.

Step 4

Place the other piece of cardboard underneath and tape them together.

Step 5

Outline the land and the sea in marker.

Step 6

Tear up the blue and green paper and mix them up in a bowl.

Step 7

Have the kids sort and stick the pieces.

More Ways to Celebrate Earth Day

Looking for another way to celebrate Earth Day? You have to try this fun and free waste sorting activity! It is a great way to talk about what items are recyclable and which are not. Best part? It is a wonderful conversation starter on things we can do in our life to reduce, reuse, and recycle.

Just print and cut out the trucks. Tape the trucks to an old box or old metal can making sure their is an opening for the truck’s mouths! Then cut out the trash and recyclables and “feed” them to the correct truck!

For more printable activities, visit our Printable Shop. It is filled with easy to set-up activities that help strengthen early childhood education skills!

Solar System. You can take this conversation a step further and talk about Earth and where it is located within our solar system. It is the third planet from the sun, the fifth largest within the solar system, and it is the only planet to have liquid water on its surface.

Educational Benefits for this fun Earth Day Craft for Kids

There is so much to love about this Earth Day craft for kids. From fine motor skills, to color sorting, and simply visualizing this big beautiful planet we call home!

Fine Motor Skills. As mentioned above, ripping paper is fantastic for muscle strength in hands and supporting fine motor skills.

Color Sorting. With the outline of Earth in view, children can learn how to color sort blue and green to make the land and sea! This will help them learn how much water is on the surface as well as how much land.

Geography. Even the youngest of kids, can begin to understand the basics of geography through this activity. Discuss continents, countries, bodies of water. Pointing to where you live on this planet is a great way to spark the converastion!

Solar System. You can take this conversation a step further and talk about Earth and where it is located within our solar system. It is the third planet from the sun, the fifth largest within the solar system, and it is the only planet to have liquid water on its surface.