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

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.
• 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.
• Cut strips of construction paper (about 1 1/2 inches by 4 inches)
• Glue the strips into rolls (like making a paper chain).
• 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.

Templates:

• Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
• Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP in most browsers).

Template   (color)   or   (B&W)