Family Storytime: Earth Day

We celebrated Earth Day by reading a few Earth Day books, doing some related flannels, and completing an Earth-friendly craft.

I started off storytime with our bean bag song and then started reading The Lonely Giant by Sophie Ambrose. I really enjoyed the message in this book because it went perfectly well with Earth Day, but the kids were still very excited so we quickly got through this one and started a flannelboard.

For our first flannelboard activity, I put a flannel Earth on the board and everyone had a different colored rocket to put on the flannelboard. They enjoyed their part of the flannel activity and got most of their antsiness out.

I read The Earth Book by Todd Parr and 10Things I Can Do to Help My World by Melanie Walsh. They seemed to have enjoyed these two books better and then I had them participate in a flannel about compost.

This flannel had a rhyme about five worms and how they recycled into the earth different things such as egg shells and old banana peels. The group liked putting their piece up on the board.

We got to our craft and they were excited to get painting. We used recycled newsletters with a circle drawn on them. The kids painted their earth blue and green and then added a die-cut hand and heart. These crafts turned out really cute and everything was recycled.

Other Books:
Junkyard Mike Austin

The Lonely Giant Sophie Ambrose

Plants Feed Me Lizzy Rockwell

The Curious Garden Peter Brown

From the Garden Todd Ouren

A Boy and A Jaguar Alan Rabinowitz

One Child, One Planet Bridget McGovern Llewwllyn

Junkyard Mike Austin

Rose's Garden by Reynolds

the Gardener by Stewart

Plant a Little Seed Christensen

And the Good Brown Earth Henderson

All the World Elizabeth Garton Scanlon

The Tree Lady Hopkins

Parrots Over Puerto Rico Roth

Other Activities

If You're Happy and You Know It

This Land Is Your Land song with scarve dancing