When is Earth Day 2027?

Earth Day is April 22 every year, a Thursday in 2027. The first Earth Day was on April 22, 1970, started by Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin.

Earth Day is a day to learn about the Earth and the everyday choices that help care for it, such as recycling, saving water, picking up trash and planting. The What Is Earth Day? poster explains it for K to 3rd grade.

What Earth Day activities work for preschool and kindergarten?

The Earth Day Busy Book, Counting Clip Cards, Number Dough Mats, Dot Marker Pages, Recycling I Spy, the Recycling Jigsaw Puzzle, Earth Day Headbands and the Paper Plate Earth Hug Craft. Each page lists its grade range.

How do you teach recycling to kids?

Start with sorting. The Reduce Reuse Recycle Sort Cards, Recycling Bin Sorting Mats and Recycling Truck Sort Craft have children decide what goes where, and the How Paper Is Recycled Coloring Page shows what happens next.

What can 3rd to 5th graders do for Earth Day?

The 3D Earth Day Research Globe, the Agamograph Craft, the Main Idea Accordion Craft, the Earth Day Fact Wheel, the Would You Rather and Talk It Over cards, and the calm and pop art coloring pages.

Thursday, April 22, 2027

Earth Day Activities for Kids

Sort recycling, make crafts from everyday things and talk about small ways to care for the Earth.

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Grade-alignedEvery printable is matched to the grades it fits, Pre-K to 5th grade.
Print and goReady-to-print US Letter PDFs, with steps and supply lists on the craft pages. No prep needed.
62 printables in all16 kinds of activities in one place, made by teachers for real classrooms.