Celebrate Earth Day with this sweet yarn Earth Day Craft for Kids. It's a fun Earth craft using scraps of supplies you have around the house.

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This Yarn Earth craft is a great way to celebrate mother earth but also is a fun earth day activity for kids to create an Earth shape using leftover yarn pieces.

Did you know that Earth Day is coming up on April 22nd?

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Earth Day Craft For Kids

We love teaching our kids about our planet and being aware of our footprint and all the different ways we can help our planet. The only planet we have.We are a pretty eco-conscience family in that we share with our kids the importance of recycling, turning lights off when we're not in the room, and composting.

While discussing Earth Day, we came up with this fun activity for the kids that they had an absolute blast making! Here's how we made it.

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Included are a printable template, a free earth template, the major continents, and lots of print papers that can be recycled or turned into paper sculptures.

Supplies:

Different colored yarns - we did blues, greens, and browns
Wax paper
Elmer's White Glue
Scissors
Shallow bowl

How to Make Earth Craft

One of the first things is to start by cutting up about 10 pieces of yarn per color approximately 8-10 inches in length.

Fill your bowl with a cup or two of Elmer's White Glue. (P.S. The kids love helping with this part) Layout a piece of wax paper in front of each child. We found it easiest to start with a longer piece of yarn to create the outside circle.

Cover your piece of yarn with glue.

When you pull each piece of yarn out of the glue, have the kids run their hands along the yarn to get rid of excess glue. Place onto wax paper.

The yarn is pretty soggy, but make sure that each piece of yarn is touching another piece allowing for it to come together as one piece at the end.

We enjoyed talking about land and water and how sometimes the land is green and sometimes it's brown. We also talked about the ocean and how important it is to no throw our trash on the ground because it could make its way to the ocean. Lots of fun things to talk about while doing this project!

Let dry for at least 24 hours or more until it's completely dry. Remove from the wax paper and hang.

HAPPY Earth Day!

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Yarn Earth Craft For Kids

Celebrate Earth Day with this sweet yarn Earth Day Craft for Kids. Its a fun Earth craft using scraps of supplies you have around the house.

Course Kids Crafts

Keyword earth craft, earth day craft, yarn craft

Cook Time 15

Total Time 15

Author Alli Ward

Equipment

Scissors

Ingredients

Different colored yarns – we did blues greens and browns
Wax paper
Elmer’s White Glue
Shallow bowl

Instructions

We started by cutting up about 10 piece of yarn per color approximately 8-10 inches in length.
Fill your bowl with a cup or two of Elmer’s White Glue. (P.S. The kids love helping with this part). Layout a piece of wax paper in front of each child.
We found it easiest to start with a longer piece of yarn to create the outside circle. Cover your piece of yarn with glue.
When you pull each piece of yarn out of the glue, have the kids run their hands along the yarn to get rid of excess glue.
Place onto wax paper. The yarn is pretty soggy, but make sure that each piece of yarn is touching another piece allowing for it to come together as one piece at the end.
We enjoyed talking about land and water and how sometimes the land is green and sometimes its brown. We also talked about the ocean and how important it is to no throw our trash on the ground because it could make its way to the ocean. Lots of fun things to talk about while doing this project!
Let dry at least 24 hours or more until its completely dry. Remove from the wax paper and hang.