Earth day activities: grow a meadow indoors!


Are you planning any Earth Day activities on April 22nd? Celebrated around the world, Earth Day is a great time to pause and reflect the impact you, your kids and your family have on the earth.

Last year we carried out an eco-audit of our play, looking at simple but effective ways we could align our activities with the ideas of reducing, re-using and recycling.

This year, we’re joining in with the Earth Day Celebrations hosted by Mommy Labs and Greening Sam and Avery to bring you a blog hop bursting with ideas you can use to celebrate Earth Day with your kids. Have a browse around the blog hop at the end of this post to find ideas for art, crafts, games, activities and positive action your family can take to go a little greener this month. First though, here’s what the NurtureStore girls came up with as an Earth Day play idea: we grew an indoor meadow!

Earth Day activities: grow a meadow indoors!

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5 tips for green kids

earth day ideasI’m working with BritMums and British Gas on a campaign to help educate about energy conservation. Here are my five top tips for green kids, to help families save energy – starting when kids are young to encourage lifelong habits.

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Junk model ideas

Are you celebrating Earth Day with your children this Friday 22nd April 2011? For environmentally-friendly, creative play we love to make junk models. We love using items from our craft box which otherwise would be thrown away – turning them into toys and extending the life of the materials.

Here’s a showcase of our favourite upcycled junk . . . → Read More: Junk model ideas

How to celebrate Earth Day

Are you celebrating Earth Day with your children this Friday 22nd April? It’s a great opportunity to review your family life and see what changes you can make to go green. Here are some ideas for an eco-audit of your play.

REDUCE

How many toys do you really need? Instead of a house full of more and more . . . → Read More: How to celebrate Earth Day

Egg Box Dragon

With Earth Day and St. George’s Day both falling in this week, why not combine the two to make a Recycled Egg Box Dragon? Big says he’s ‘fantastically ferocious’!

You will need: 3 egg boxes, green paint & a paint brush, red paper, 2 treasury tags, glue / sticky tape, red and black . . . → Read More: Egg Box Dragon

Celebrate Earth Day

How green are your kids?

April 22nd 2010 is the 40th anniversary of Earth Day and an excellent opportunity to give your home an eco-audit and ask yourself how environmentally-friendly is your play. Following the ‘reduce, re-use, recycle‘ mantra is an easy way to make simple and effective changes to create an eco-home.

Here are some . . . → Read More: Celebrate Earth Day

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