Celebrate Our Wondrous Planet With These 14 Earth Day Crafts

This charming project from 30 Minute Crafts uses the lids from frozen juice concentrate containers to create a colorful garland. Paint a blue and green version for Earth Day to string up across the mantle, or choose colors that complement your child’s bedroom so that they can use their craft as a new room decoration.

This celebratory craft not only helps the planet by recycling a plastic bottle, but it helps feed one of Earth’s loveliest creatures. Is there anything more magical than watching a bird fly? Enjoy more bird watching when you make this bird feeder craft from Aunt Peaches.

Help your kids connect to the earth by using flowers to create this DIY flower crown from blogger Julie Blanner. This particular tutorial uses fresh-cut rose blooms, but you can also collect flowers and plants on a nature walk or from your own garden that will work just as well.

This cereal box envelope project from Creative Green Living is a fun way for your kids to get creative on Earth Day and then also engage in the good, old-fashioned art of correspondence. They can write a note to a teacher, a friend, a family member, or anyone else they want to and send it in their upcycled envelope.

Especially when you have younger kids, sometimes the simplest projects are the best ones for getting them involved on a holiday like Earth Day. Use scissors to snip “blades” of grass into a paper sack crown from Delia Creates that little ones can wear to celebrate.

Get fancy with your Earth Day crafting and make recycled bottle cap jewelry using this tutorial from the Rosyscription blog. These glittery pendants can be attached to old bracelets, necklaces, or simply affixed to string using a strong adhesive. Perfect for wearing on Earth Day, or any day you and your kids want to show off your upcycled crafting skills.

Using empty cereal boxes and toilet paper rolls, you and your kids can put together a nifty desk organizer using this tutorial from the Mod Podge Rocks blog. Another way to make this project even more of an upcycled craft is to use leftover wrapping paper to cover your boxes.

Although this particular craft doesn’t use recycled materials, it’s still fun for younger kids who can cut or rip up the tissue paper and glue it to wax paper to create a stained glass Earth from Mom On Timeout. This is a great craft to add to a day full of reading out the planet, watching kid-friendly documentaries about the environment, and enjoying being outdoors in nature.

If you’ve never tried to make flour pounding artwork before, this tutorial from the blog Pink Stripey Socks is an easy one to follow. This isn’t so much a craft, per se, but it’s creating a work of art using materials found in nature, so it totally counts as an Earth Day project.

This cardboard sun craft project from The House That Lars built is a great way to make use of any large boxes you might need to recycle, like from a new refrigerator or something similar. You can also use up all of those Amazon delivery boxes you’ve got lying around, too!

Help your kids find beauty in nature when you make these natural dye shirts from The Merry Thought using berries. It’s definitely a messy project, but it’s the perfect way to use up a batch of blackberries or blueberries that maybe got buried in the back of your fridge for a week too long.

Instead of throwing out your used egg cartons, you can recycle them into a fun toy for your kiddos. This tutorial from the blog This Grandma Is Fun shows you step-by-step how to create miniature monster characters from egg cartons that your kids can play with.

It’s hard to find a simpler project than rock painting to celebrate Earth Day. All you truly need is some paint and some garden rocks. The smooth ones work best, and if you want your creation to last, you’ll need to seal it in some way, but it’s a pretty simple craft to accomplish. This tutorial from Mod Podge Rocks has plenty of ideas for inspiration.

What better way is there to celebrate Earth Day than to see part of nature up close? The Creative Green Living Blog shows you step-by-step how to transform a recycled glass jar into a decorated ladybug catcher. Use it to examine ladybugs and any other critter that may wander in.