Montessori-Inspired Earth Day Activities

Maria Montessori believed in giving children experiences in nature. In Montessori education, Earth Day principles are a natural part of everyday learning. Still, Earth Day is commonly observed in many Montessori Schools as an extra way to show respect for the earth and to build community.

Earth Day is April 22, making April a great time to combine a study of the earth with Earth Day activities. If you sign up for my mailing list, you’ll receive a free Montessori geography album created by Karen Tyler from Worldwide Montessori Online. The album contains 177 pages of geography activities to help preschoolers through early-elementary-age children understand the earth and their place on it.

Paint Your Own Earth Activity:

Paint Your Own Earth (the lovely activity in the photos) is from My Montessori Journey. (Update: The blog is no longer available.) This is a great activity after children are introduced to the Montessori land and water activity. If you don’t have access to the template from KidsSoup, here’s a royalty-free public domain clip art image that could be printed out and used to paint the land:

To download the earth image, click here, then right click on the image and choose “Save Picture As . . .”

And here’s the link to a black and white coloring page of the earth from DLTK’s Crafts for Kids.

More Earth Day Ideas from Montessorians:

Montessori-Inspired Fun with Land and Water Forms (my post – not an Earth Day activity but helpful if you’re combining a study of the earth  before or along with Earth Day activities)

Celebrating Earth Day in the Montessori Community and Earth Day 2009: Celebrating Peace and Environmental Awareness in the Montessori Classroom from North American Montessori Center

Celebrate Earth Day Every Day! and Earth Day 2010 from Whole Earth Montessori

More Earth Day Resources

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Earth Day Science Products for Kids 

• The Best Earth Day Every Day Books for Kids
• Free 3-Part Recycle Cards
• Montessori-Inspired Earth Day Activities
• Montessori-Inspired Activities for Earth Day Every Day
• Montessori-Inspired Earth Day Activities (2012)
• Montessori-Inspired Lorax Activities
• Free Earth Day Printables and Montessori-Inspired Earth Day Activities
• Montessori-Inspired Arbor Day Activities
• Free Conservation Songs for Home or School {Character Education Resources}
• Free Earth Day Songs and Rhymes for Circle Time
• Free Tree Printables and Montessori-Inspired Tree Activities
• Free Endangered Animal Songs and Educational Videos {Save the Animals}
• Thank You for Planet Earth (or Thank You, Planet Earth) Mindfulness Cards and Booklet

• Free Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Activities for a Montessori-Inspired Earth Day Unit
• Free Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Do-a-Dot Printable (Montessori-Inspired Phonics Instant Download)
• Free Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Cutting Strips (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download)

• Free Recycling Printables and Montessori-Inspired Recycling Activities
• Free Recycling Cutting Strips (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download)
• Free Recycling Do-a-Dot Printable (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download)
• Free Endangered Animal Printables and Montessori-Inspired Endangered Animal Activities
• Free Endangered Animals Do-a-Dot Printable (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download)
• Free Endangered Animal Cutting Strips (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download)
• Montessori-Inspired Earth Day Printables for Preschool Through Elementary
• Kids’ Earth Day Every Day Pinterest Board

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