EARTH DAY ACTIVITY

Earth Day is celebrated on April 22th. It is observed as an awareness day to save the nature earth. We can teach children in general about the goodness of nature, our environment and what more we have lost due to modernisation, what can be done to save our Earth.

It's always fun and more effective, if we teach children about any lesson by means of visual activities involving them. Once such activity is Earth day activity. 

We are sharing our activity for this year 2020. 

Things Required :

Any old transparent lid/ or paper plate

Acrylic colours

Circle cutouts

Steps to be followed : 

1) Rub little water in the plate. Mix Green and Blue colours in it.

2) Place the circle cutout and press gently the sides of the paper so that the colours are equally observed.

3) Take the paper carefully and allow it to dry completely. Earth template is ready.

OZONE DEPLETION PROJECT FOR KIDS

Hi all ,

I am sharing an interesting and simple Science project for primary school Children, explaining Ozone depletion on the occasion of Earth day awareness week

As a part of parenting, scheduling our time with our children is the most important responsibility of us. Creating projects on their own will help children to gain knowledge about the theme taken, they would explore more and it's a practical way of learning. When children are involved in doing their school projects, they remember things in a better way or learn the concepts easily. Generally, projects are hands on experience activities for children.

Here, we designed a simple DIY model explaining the reasons or causes of Ozone depletion.

Learning process :

1) Explain the concept taken for the project. 

Our project is about Ozone depletion. Explain the children about it, by reading out the concept from textbooks or any articles. You can show them some videos as well. Make it like an interactive session.

2) Help them to write or make quick notes on what they have learnt.

3) Ask them, how they want to present their projects. Make their collective ideas.

4) Tell them that they should do on their own with the support from us.

5) Help them to get the required resources or materials for the project.

6) We ended up in doing a simple display self explanatory model. I involved children  to collect the pictures of various sources causing depletion like Refrigerator  (emitting Chlorofluro carbon), Factory(emission of CO2), Pesticides, Fire extinguishers, CO2 from vehicles, Forest fires and Deforestation.

7) We did a paper collage of earth surface. We used 4 kebab sticks, tooth picks and a thick base board.

8) We drew Sun and cut out the template.

9) Glue the pictures of Refrigerator, Aerosols, Air Conditioner, Deforestation to the tooth picks and pin it to the base board.

10) Design the model of the factory using play blocks, use a toy car, we used corn fibres for forest fire remains, small tins as Pesticides can. Glue it to the base board.

11) Glue 4 kebab sticks to the corners of Earth College with Sun paper cut in the centre piercing a ray of UV through Ozone layer because of depletion.



This model conveys and help the kids understands what are the toxic emissions that causes hole in ozone leading path for the direct UV rays from the sun.

EARTH COLLAGE AND FEW EARTH DAY ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS .

April 22 was celebrated as Earth day . This year we crafted a collage and a wall hanging . Kids must know about the values of our valuable earth . Here are few simple ways , i followed to teach my daughter about earth with fun and crafts .

THINGS REQUIRED :

Magazines

Cardboard 

Glue

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Draw an earth outline.

2) Glue blue and leaf strips from magazines .Outline earth with colour pens .

3) My daughter enjoyed making it . She attached stick to it on her own with a tape . I am really flattered on her idea .

Earth is ready for display in her class 

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Other Earth day activities : 

1) Teach about the importance of Earth day with pictures from Magazines .

2) Teach them about the goodness of growing trees .

3) Recycling Poster : Help them learn how to recycle .

4) Re-usuable Paper bags : 

5) Our Project display for Earth and Nature's Day .

Hope you enjoyed reading our crafts . See you again with an interesting craft .Linking it up with 

Made by little hands and Show and tell # 98 .

BOOK REVIEW - THE STORM AND A TREE HOUSE

Back again with a review of a kids story book , THE STORM . This is a story about a family building a tree house for their children and friends of them and the effects of a heavy storm . This books will help kids to understand the meaning of storm and how does it affect us . My daughter enjoyed reading this book , wish to build her own tree house and furbish it for her and her friends like the kids in the story . 

When had a wonderful spring break in Manchester last week . But , the weather was not too good for moving with kids around , it was rainy all through the morning and cool winds in the evening . But , as our plan we visted few places inspite of the bad weather . My lil one loves holding umbrella and walk in the rain . She have a craze for patterns in the umbrella and wish to have all the shades . After reading this book ,  she was saying 'Amma ,storm storm !!! , my umbrella is flying !!! Heavy showers !!!!!! Ices all over !!!! ' . Isn't it lovely to hear her words , the impact of good book ?........we really had a fun . Back home , crafted a tree house .

THINGS REQUIRED : 

Tissue holder
Leaf pictures from magazines
Flower Stickers
Building blocks .

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED :

1) Cut the holder n number of times to strips (show branches) at one end .
2) Fold each strip gently .
3) Glue leaf pictures to it with flowers in it.
4) Build a house with blocks .
5) Tree house is ready to play with .

Linking it with Shruthi's Challenge - googly eyes  and  bookworm friday and Shruthi's Artsy craftsy Challenge - May 2012 .

EGG SHELL EARTH / MOSAIC ART

MATERIALS REQUIRED : 

Egg shells - crushed
Acrylic Colours
Glue
A4 sheet

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED:



1) Draw a circle in a plain sheet.
2) Apply glue to it . Then , stick the egg shells to it.
3) Allow it to dry for few hours.
4) Then , paint it with Earth colours. Earth is ready for Earth day activity.

Linking it with 
Show and tell # 55Fun for kids friday #8
Play Academy # 37

and Shruti's Arsty-Craftsy Challenge,Apr 2011 - Earth day.