Chubbie Cubbie's Earth Day Activities
Activity name:
Coffee Filter Globes
Materials needed:
Coffee filter
Blue & green food color
Pipettes or plastic droppers
Water
2 plastic or Styrofoam cups
Preparation:
Add some green food color to one cup of water and some blue to the other
cup of water. Flatten the coffee filter. Spread newspaper over
your workspace.
Carrying out the activity:
Use a pipette or dropper to place blue and green food colored water in
different areas of the filter. Be sure to have the children do it in
small amounts. Too much and you'll end up with a blue-green coffee
filter.
When they are done, allow to dry.
You'll have green land and blue water.
Activity name:
Good Clean Fun
Materials needed:
Trash bags (5)
Rubber or latex gloves
Permanent marker
Preparation:
Label the bags:
Paper
Plastic
Glass
Metal
Trash
Carrying out the activity:
Take the children out for a day of cleaning. Clean up a park, your
yard, a playground, or more.
Take before and after pictures so
they can see what a great job they did. Did they find items that can
be recycled? Can they count the items?
Be sure to monitor the children
carefully so they don't pick up sharp objects or broken glass.
