Celebrate Earth Day

posted 4/11/23 -- Every April 22, Earth Day is celebrated to bring awareness to environmental protection issues.

Earth Day is a wonderful opportunity to teach children more about protecting planet Earth and teaching the 3Rs: recycling, reducing, and reusing. There are so many things parents and kids can do to help protect, preserve and restore our planet.

Celebrate with these fun activities:

 

• Neighborhood clean-up or community Earth Day events.
• Nature scavenger hunt.
• Make a bird feeder.
• Plant a tree, garden, or a seed jar.
• Make earth art with stones, leaves, tree branches, flowers, etc.
• Take a nature hike.

 

Visit the local library and check out early childhood books on topics like pollution, recycling and reusing, or litter.

Teaching them young and taking small steps in their daily lives, will allow them to become better stewards of the Earth.