DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Earth Day Wreath
This is a fun earth day wreath to do by
yourself or with a group.
If you are doing it with a group, each person can write something
they think would help keep our planet healthy on one of the strips of construction paper
before making it into a loop.
Materials:
- Ring of cardboard (empty cereal boxes work wonderfully)
- construction paper (blue and green)
- scissors
- glue
- small piece of wool
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Instructions:
- Trace a small plate and a large plate onto a piece of old
cardboard.
- Empty cereal boxes or frozen dinner boxes work well as a
source of recycled cardboard.
- It doesn't matter if you go over the folds of the cardboard
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- Cut a small strip of cardboard and glue it onto the back of
the ring over any folds in the cardboard.
- This will reinforce the ring.
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- Cut strips of construction paper (about 1 1/2 inches by 4
inches)
- Glue the strips into rolls (like making a paper chain)
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- Glue the rolls of construction paper onto the wreath.
Alternate colors to make a pattern. This craft
is good pattern practice for Kindergarten thru Grade
2 students
- Use the template pieces below for the earth.
- Tape a small piece of wool to the earth and the wreath so it
hangs in the middle.
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