The Planet Earth: Earth Day Worksheets for Kindergarten

Are you looking for fun Earth Day worksheets for your children? Below, you will find a free printable Earth Day worksheet bundle for your kindergarten students. Scroll down to get the PDF file! These worksheets are suitable for both young and older students. This engaging activity will help students develop their writing and fine motor skills while enjoying and celebrating this day!

What is included in the FREE Earth Day Printables:

• Free coloring page
• Free Earth Day Worksheets
• Ways to take care of the earth
• Worksheets that promote environmental awareness
• Earth Day Vocabulary Words
• Crafts: Whale Basket and Magic Fold
• Whale Counting
• Connect the Dots
• Letter Writing
• And more!

Earth Day is celebrated each year on April 22nd. This day is a great time to teach your children Earth Day lessons and engage in fun activities together while learning how to take care of our planet. The Earth Day preschool worksheets are an easy way to implement environmental awareness to our kids and educate them about how to take care of the planet Earth.

Earth Day Celebration: Earth Day Activities

Here, I will share some fun Earth Day activities on what to do in nature. I will share what we, as a family, have enjoyed doing outdoors. Hopefully, this will inspire you and give you ideas on how to enjoy the beautiful nature and take care of our Earth. I hope you will have much fun while spending time outdoors together!

1. Simple Earth Day Activities for Kids:
   • Go on a nature walk.
   • Go to the beach together.
   • Cultivate together. Here, there are endless opportunities for learning. Teach your child how to provide the seed with the right environment that will help it grow and develop into a big plant, producing vegetables or fruits. Talk about how amazing this process is and how wonderful it is to get food on the table from only one seed.
   • Plant a tree, for example, an apple tree or a plum tree in your garden. This activity is great with older kids and a fun way to learn how to grow fruits in your garden.
   • Make sure you have child-sized gardening tools that will make this experience fun for the kids. They will need small shovels, rakes, and watering cans. I almost guarantee you that they will spend much time with their personal tools, which is a perfect way to engage them in this fun activity.
   • Use printable activities to engage learning indoors. This is very a great activity on rainy days. Below is a fun bundle that you can download for free.
2. Cultivation:
   • Cultivate a small garden or potted plants to teach kids about the importance of plants in maintaining a healthy environment. Explain concepts like photosynthesis and the role of plants in producing oxygen.
3. Crafts for Young Children:
   • Make a bird feeder from a milk carton or create art with reused materials.
   • Create different Whale Crafts together. Take a look at my previous blog, Whale Crafts for Preschoolers: Creative Crafts and Worksheets.
4. Tips for Teaching Sustainability:
   • Discuss simple practices like turning off lights when not in use, recycling, composting.
   • Use the printable worksheet below to teach the children about recycling.
   • Emphasize the three Rs: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. Discuss how reducing waste, reusing items, and recycling materials contribute to sustainability.
5. Environmental Awareness:
   • Talk about the significance of planting seeds, both literally and metaphorically. Discuss the importance of instilling a love for nature in young minds and fostering an early understanding of environmental responsibility.
   • Discuss some of the environmental problems we see today.
   • Use the printable pack below to display different ways to recycle and protect our environment. The activities show five ways of waste sorting, which are paper, glass, plastic, metal, and organic recycling.
6. Outdoor Nature Scavenger Hunt:
   • Share ideas for a nature scavenger hunt in local parks or even in their backyard. Create a checklist for items like leaves, rocks, flowers, and explore nature with your little ones. This is especially fun with younger kids.
7. Celebrating Earth Day at Home:
   • Celebrate Earth Day at home, such as planting a small indoor garden, making a recycled art project, or having a “green” picnic in the backyard.
8. Perfect Earth Day Activity: The Importance of Nature Play:
   • Allow the children to play in nature. There are many benefits of outdoor play for physical and mental development.
   • Enjoy nature together as a family.
   • Spend time outdoors with your children and have fun exploring together.
   • There are many different activities that you can do together out in nature. We have enjoyed canoe sailing, camping in the wild, and late walks in the sunset.

Biblical Truths from Cultivation:

There are many lessons we can learn from God when we work together with our children in our garden. Here are some Bible verses about gardening.

• Psalms 104:14
  • “He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground” (NET).
• Proverbs 28:19
  • “The one who works his land will be satisfied with food, but whoever chases daydreams will have his fill of poverty” (NET).
• Ecclesiastes 3:2
  • “A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot what was planted” (NET).
• Ecclesiastes 11:4-6
  • “He who watches the wind will not sow, and he who observes the clouds will not reap. Just as you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones form in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything. Sow your seed in the morning, and do not stop working until the evening; for you do not know which activity will succeed – whether this one or that one, or whether both will prosper equally” (NET).
• 2 Corinthians 9:6
  • “My point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously” (NET).

When you work together in the garden, plant seeds, weed your garden, or harvest, teach the children about God and his love. “The seed dies, to spring forth into new life. In this, we are taught the lesson of the resurrection. Of the human body laid away to molder in the grave, God has said: ‘It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: it is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.'” – Education p.110.4 (Ellen Gould White).

Cultivation teaches us to be patient and wait for the perfect timing. There are laws that must be followed to succeed with cultivation, and therefore many lessons for us and our children to learn. I especially love spending a lot of time in the garden, in the sun, enjoying the fresh air and listening to my children play and explore. There is so much to explore outside in nature. Some examples that we have are tadpoles – when and how they grow, harmless lizards, birds, and insects. One of my boys loves to watch the ants and see what they are up to. He also loves to play with water, and where is a better place than outside in the garden to play with water?

“As parents and teachers try to teach these lessons, the work should be made practical. Let the children themselves prepare the soil and sow the seed. As they work, the parent or teacher can explain the garden of the heart, with the good or bad seed sown there, and that as the garden must be prepared for the natural seed, so the heart must be prepared for the seed of truth. As the seed is cast into the ground, they can teach the lesson of Christ’s death; and as the blade springs up, the truth of the resurrection. As the plant grows, the correspondence between the natural and the spiritual sowing may be continued.” – Education p.111.1 (Ellen Gould White).

You might have a small garden or a big one. Try to think simple. Start with something small this summer and have fun. I think the most important thing is to have fun with your kids. Do not create too many plans that will make you overwhelmed and stressed. You yourself need to be enjoying the process of learning. With that being said, Happy Earth Day!