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April 10, 2012

Earth Day Craft with Writing Prompt

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Since Earth Day is coming up in a couple weeks we decided to make a craft for the occasion. We started out just making the ever popular Earth coffee filter craft but then one thing led to another and when we were finished we had a pretty cool Earth from space art display with a writing prompt attached to it.

If you haven’t made an Earth coffee filter yet, they are soooo simple and fun! Have your child use a green marker to scribble areas of land on a coffee filter and then fill in the rest of the filter with blue ocean scribbles.

Then use a squirt bottle to spray the coffee filter with water. The colors blend and fill the entire coffee filter.

While our Earth was drying outside we started talking about what color paper to glue it on to. Andy suggested we put it on black paper and spray stars on it just like we did in our Out of this World Craft (pictured in my header). I thought the coffee filter was too big for a single sheet of card stock paper so I ended up gluing another piece of card stock to it to make it bigger. Not sure if it was necessary, but we like it. To make the stars, dilute white paint in a spray bottle and lightly spray a couple sprays onto your paper.

After we glued the Earth to our starry paper, it was beautiful, but we wanted to do more. I folded up a paper lunch sack and cut out some paper dolls holding hands to glue onto the Earth. We also looked through an old magazine and found a page with lots of red on it and cut out a little heart to add to the middle of the people. So cute right?!!  🙂   I also wanted to use some recyclable materials in our craft so the paper sack and magazine worked perfectly!

Since we had just finished reading about how we can help our Earth I got out some writing paper and the boys wrote how they could help the Earth.

These would look so beautiful hung up on display in a classroom!

I’ll be sharing one more Earth Day Craft tomorrow so make sure you stop by!

Happy Earth Day!

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  1. Kelly at Little Wonders' Days says

    April 10, 2012 at 11:36 PM

    This is a beautiful craft and such a great writing prompt!

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  2. Smallgood says

    April 11, 2012 at 12:07 AM

    I love what the water does to the magic marker on the filter. It becomes so soft and water color like. Great writing prompt too.

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  3. Charlene says

    April 11, 2012 at 3:27 AM

    I love this!! such a great project, totally going to do this with my boys!

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  4. applesandabcs says

    April 11, 2012 at 4:55 AM

    I love this!! I am on spring break, but it would be so fun to do this with the kids once I get back..

    Michelle

    Apples and ABC's

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  5. applesandabcs says

    April 11, 2012 at 4:55 AM

    I love this!! I am on spring break, but it would be so fun to do this with the kids once I get back..

    Michelle

    Apples and ABC's

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  6. Amanda Joy {Joy in the Jumble} says

    April 11, 2012 at 2:15 PM

    I will have to try the coffee filter idea. It would be neat to try it with different colors for a watercolor effect:)

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  7. Big D and Me says

    April 12, 2012 at 1:12 AM

    Love it – hmm…totally forgot Earth day was soon. I'll need to think of something to celebrate it.

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  8. Jessi W says

    April 12, 2012 at 5:18 AM

    What a smart way to color coffee filters, they are really pretty that way! I'm your newest GFC follower, found you on the Mingle With Us Blog Hop at Happy Go Lucky!

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  9. SusanD1408 Crochet Addict says

    April 12, 2012 at 9:28 AM

    Love it! A new follower just come on over from the mingle.
    I can't wait to see more of your makes.

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  10. Kali at The Vintage Milk House says

    April 12, 2012 at 11:49 AM

    This is great! My son would love this! New follower hopping over from the Mingle!!! I would love for you to stop by The Vintage Milk House! – Kali

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  11. Cal says

    April 13, 2012 at 12:57 AM

    Love this. What a cute idea.

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  12. Carrie says

    April 17, 2012 at 7:34 PM

    How fun!! I love how it came out, Rachel! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!! I hope you are having an amazing week!!

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  13. skubby1@aol.com says

    March 23, 2015 at 6:58 AM

    Love these they are beautiful. What kind of markers did you use. I did a sample and my markers did not bleed. Thank you for another great idea. God Bless. Mrs. Valerie

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  14. Symphony S. Hernandez says

    April 22, 2020 at 11:43 AM

    I like When we sprayed the Stars into the black Construction paper and I like when we use the coffee filters to make earth

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