THE EARTH BOOK

Your students are going to be so proud of this “Earth Book” when they take it home to share with their families.  Yes, it's going to take a few days to construct, but well worth the effort of creating a project from start to finish.

Materials: 8” squares of the following colors:
2 orange, 1 green, 1 blue, 1 yellow, 1 brown, 1 purple

To construct the book place down the orange square for the back of the book. Place the “purple sky” on top of this, then the “brown mountains,” “yellow sun,” “blue water,” “green tree,” and finally the front cover with the circle cut out. Staple on the left side. Younger children can read this as a wordless book. Older children can write descriptive sentences on each page. 

Hint! Your students will be overwhelmed to do this all in one day, so stretch this project out by asking them to just do 2 or 3 pages a day.

Here's a pdf with the patterns.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1SnEagA4jljeDFJVUJzb05xSlU/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-1D8Ns1zqp9yH8z7d9yT4uA




Earth Week Crowns

This is another craft your students will enjoy creating this week.

1st Take children on a walk and invite them to pick up small, light objects from the ground. (Remind them to never pull leaves or flowers off plants.)

2nd  Give them sentence strips, crayons, markers, and glue. Let them decorate their sentence strips with things that they love in nature. Glue the items they collected to the sentence strips and then adjust to their heads and staple to make crowns.