Earth Day is celebrated on April 22, 2019, and provides students
and families with an opportunity to take part in preserving and protecting the
environment. At your child’s private elementary
school the day is often
associated with planting trees or other growing things, but it is equally
important to reduce refuse and clean up our local areas. We’ve put together
some fun projects that you can do with your children to show them the
importance of protecting our planet.
Recycled Wind Chime
Earth Day activities are the kind of play-based learning found at
an authentic Montessori
elementary school. Children can
collect aluminum, plastic, and glass to make their own unique wind chimes out
of discarded material. Each child will have a different creative approach, and
the finished products will produce a wide variety of sounds based on which
materials were used. For additional decoration, they can pick flowers or find
other natural items that can be tied or pasted onto the recycled wind chime.
Planting and Growing
Flower seeds, onions, and potatoes are all easy items to plant,
and they can be started inside the home or classroom. Regardless of whether
they are sowing
a handful of seeds or planting a tree,
making an activity out of planting a growing thing is sure to entertain and
interest children of all ages. Keeping a gardening journal even incorporates
reading and writing into your Earth Day activities.
Earth Day Events
There will be events
all over the Bay Area for
Earth Day. From entertaining festivals to community clean up events, there will
be activities, games and take-home projects for everyone to take part in. There
will be a beach cleanup in Berkley, and a festival in Cupertino, to name only a
couple of events celebrating Earth Day this year.
The best approach to protecting the world we live in is to make
preservation an ongoing event in our children’s lives. Even more importantly,
these activities give children an absorbing way to learn about nature and the
roles human beings play in reducing waste and conserving resources.
