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Earth Day Lacing Craft

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Earth Day is April 22nd. It is never too soon to start teaching your children about the planet & how to protect it. We have taught our daughter to recycle & the importance of not wasting food, water or electricity.  Even her favorite book “The Lorax” teaches her about what can happen if we don’t protect our planet.

Earth Day Lacing Craft using recycled cardboard. A great fine motor activity & craft for the kids.

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“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better.” Dr. Seuss – The Lorax

Earth Day Lacing Craft using recycled cardboard. A great fine motor activity & craft for kids

Since my daughter loves sewing so much, to celebrate this Earth Day, we opted to make an Earth craft & lacing activity. Here is how.

What you will need:

Cardboard

Acrylic paint

Yarn

Yarn needle

Directions:

Draw a circle and a rough sketch of the Earth on a piece of cardboard. The shapes do not have to be perfect. Poke holes around the outline of the shapes of the continents.

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Paint the cardboard using green for the inside of your outline & blue on the outside. Let the paint dry.

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Use a yarn needle to thread through the holes on the inside of the continents.

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Earth Day Lacing Craft using recycled cardboard. A great fine motor activity & craft for the kids

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Earth Day Hand & Footprint Craft

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Hand & Footprint Earth - Earth Day Craft

 

Mai & I have been working on learning our planets together for a little while now. I am proud & also a little embarrassed to say that she has a better grasp on our solar system than I do. The only ones that I can name are Saturn & of course the Earth.

Earth Day is coming up on April 22nd. For those of you that don’t know, Earth Day is an annual holiday that celebrates our home planet & also brings attention to the various ways we can help preserve our planet. To show our support Mai & I made a special Earth Day craft.

Hand & Footprint Earth

We used a piece of blue 12×12 scrapbook paper for the ocean portion of our Earth. I painted & stamped Mai’s hand & foot in green onto the blue to form our continents. If you make a mistake, which we did, you can always cut around the prints & place them where you would like on another piece of blue paper.

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Using the same colored paint, I painted in more green for the land.

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Let the paint dry & cut around into a circle.

Hand & Footprint Earth - Earth Day Craft

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