Easy, Educational Earth Day Activity: Happy Earth/Sad Earth Printable

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Do you love Earth Day? I do! This Earth Day activity is a great opportunity to teach kids to protect and care for the Earth and the living things around us. 

Earth Day cut-outs with happy face and sad face.

When Is Earth Day?

Earth Day is celebrated every year on April 22nd. It is the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. 

If you’re looking for Earth day activities for kids, you’ll love this Happy Earth / Sad Earth printable! It involves coloring and cutting – two essential skills for preschoolers. 

It also includes an Earth Day worksheet designed to help kids learn how to make the Earth happy!

Happy-faced Earth with

Get your children to take part in the activities over a period of time and cross them off as the tasks are complete.

This free printable for Earth Day can be used as a great teaching/learning tool for the little ones and add extra fun to the activity.

How to make the Earth happy worksheet with items highlighted and crossed off.

To learn more, check out Earth Day: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Spend It with Your Family.

What You Will Need for This Happy Earth Sad Earth Activity

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Earth Day activity printout with crayons, glue, and scissors.

How to Make This Earth Day Craft for Preschoolers

Download and print out two copies of the Earth Day printable template.
Use crayons to colour the template.

Earth template colored in green and blue with a blue crayon beside it.

Cut the template pieces out.

Earth, eyes, mouth, heart and bandaid cut outs with scissors next to them.

Add four velcro dots to the Earth. (refer to the photo) Two dots will go where you want to put the eyes, one where you want to put the mouth and one where you want to put the heart/bandaid.

Earth template colored blue and green with velcro dots stuck on.

Add the other side of the velcro dots to the back side of the template pieces.

Happy face Earth and sad face Earth.

Stick the velcro pieces together. If you are only making one Earth, your little one can have fun changing the pieces of the face. 

Cut the arm/leg piece from the template.

Green cardstock with pencil.

Trace the template onto green or blue card stock. Trace and cut out eight pieces.

Fold each arm/leg piece in an accordion shape (refer to the photo below).

Strips of green cardstock folded like an accordian.

Glue the arms and legs onto the Earth.

Happy Earth and Sad Earth with arms and legs.

Your Earth Day activity is finished!

Yield: one

Fantastic Earth Day Craft And Activity For Kids

Fantastic Earth Day Activity

This is a tutorial on how to make earth day craft.

Prep Time 5 minutes
Active Time 15 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Difficulty Easy

Materials

  • Cardstock
  • Crayons
  • Gluestick
  • Velcro Dots

Tools

  • Scissors

Instructions

    Download and print out the 2 copies of the template.

    Use crayons to colour the template.

    Cut the template pieces out.

    Add four velcro dots to the Earth. (refer to the photo) Two dots will go where you want to put the eyes, one where you want to put the mouth and one where you want to put the heart/bandaid.

    Add the other side of the velcro dots to the back side of the template pieces.

    Stick the velcro pieces together. If only making one Earth, your little one can have fun changing the pieces of the face. 

    Cut the arm/leg piece from the template.

    Trace the template onto green or blue card stock. Trace and cut out eight pieces.

    Fold each arm/leg piece in an accordion shape. (refer to the photo)

    Glue the arms and legs onto the Earth.

    Your Earth craft is finished!

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Happy-faced and sad-faced Earth cut-outs for Earth Day activity for preschoolers - graphic for Pinterest.

Angela Milnes is a Qualified Early Years Teacher who has specialised in Preschool and Kindergarten teaching. She has a wealth of experience teaching young children and is passionate about kids crafts and having fun as a family. Angela has also taught cooking skills and loves to share both family recipes and easy crafts here on The Inspiration Edit. Follow her on Pinterest!

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9 Comments

  1. Great project! I am noticing the template only has one of each eye. Could you add two more so each set is complete?

    1. Hi Liz, the template needs printing out two times if using directly. If using as a template then you can trace around the eye template twice so there does not need to be two eyes included.

  2. Hello! This looks like a fun craft!! How can I get the “How to Make the Earth Happy” worksheet?

  3. Great post! This year, for Earth Day, I had artists from a local outside Sculpture museum come to the school where I work to talk about the recycling they do as part of their program. I will be looking at following some of these suggestions for myself in 2022. Thanks for the suggestions!

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