Earth Day Helping Hands Craft
This Earth Day Helping Hands Craft is a fun and meaningful way for kids to celebrate caring for the planet. It is a great project for classrooms, homeschool groups, Scouts, or family craft time. Children can turn recycled paper into colorful helping hands and build a bulletin board display that reminds everyone that even small actions can help protect the Earth.
This easy Earth Day craft for kids is also a great chance to talk about reusing materials and finding creative ways to give old paper a new purpose.
Supplies
- Recycled paper such as wallpaper samples, paper bags, magazine pages, comics, or scrap paper
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Stapler
- Printed earth graphics
- Printed sayings, or make your own
Instructions
- Trace each child’s hand onto recycled paper with a pencil.
- Cut out the hand shapes carefully.
- Print the earth graphics and any sayings you would like to use.
- Cut out the earth circles and the sayings.
- Arrange the helping hands and earth pieces in a bulletin board design.
- Staple the pieces together to create a classroom collage or Earth Day display.
Fun Facts
Earth Day is celebrated every year on April 22.
The first Earth Day was held in 1970.
People around the world take part in Earth Day by planting trees, cleaning up litter, recycling, and learning about ways to care for nature.
Patterns, Templates and Printables
Print the earth graphics and sayings to complete your Earth Day Helping Hands Craft. Use the provided phrases or invite kids to create their own Earth Day messages for a more personal touch.
Teacher Friendly Educational Extension
This Earth Day classroom activity works well as both an art project and a discussion starter.
Ask children to share one way they can help the Earth at home or at school. Ideas might include turning off lights, recycling paper, picking up litter, or saving water.
You can also turn this into a writing activity by having each child finish a sentence such as “I can help the Earth by…” and attach it to their helping hand. This makes a wonderful Earth Day bulletin board and gives children a chance to connect the craft to real everyday actions.
Supplies
Instructions
Patterns, Templates and Printables
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Wonderful! I can’t wait to have my class make this wreath!
Thank you for sharing, I’m working with young toddlers, they will be learning at early age
Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. And preparing for Earth Day too!!
Thank you again!!
Maria