Celebrate Earth Day with Your Kids!
Celebrate Earth Day with Your Kids!
Planning to celebrate Earth Day with your kids? Visit Earth Day Network’s new Parents Page for tips, fun facts and activity ideas for teaching children about the environment and living sustainably this Earth Day and year-round. For example, you could build a solar oven with tin foil and a shoe box to teach your kids about energy from the sun. Make some food in the process and have a picnic! You could also organize or participate in projects such as water monitoring, tree planting, alien plant removal, litter clean-ups and Earth Day celebrations. Find Earth Day events near you!
Our friends at Bloggermoms have also put together a great piece called 10 Things to Do with Kids on Earth Day - check it out for more ideas!
Whatever you end up doing, be sure to register it on our Earth Day Events Registry or count it towards a Billion Acts of Green!
Join A Walk for Water, a fun family event for kids to raise funds for Amman Imman: Water is Life and connect with the Azawak region of West Africa, where there is no rain for 10 months a year, and hardly any sustainable sources of water. Kids can make a difference, even when they are having fun! Register online for A Walk for Water near you: http://www.active.com/donate/awalkforwater
Another thing to do with kids on Earth Day: play the Pennies for the Planet Game by Audubon (http://togethergreen.org/p4p/fun.aspx). Learn about five things anyone can do to make their yard more wildlife-friendly and how you can help support panthers, plovers, and terrapins.