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By Kim Vij 3 Comments

Party for the Planet

 

Happy Earth Day!  How will you Party for the Planet today?  We had the opportunity to visit our local zoo for a Party for the Planet.  It was such fun to explore the zoo with our children.  Of course even more fun since it was both of our families together on an adventure!

 

Stations for Party for the Planet

The zoo set up stations throughout the zoo to visit.  For each station they got a stamp for the Planet Passport.  The stations focused on a variety of topics from endangered animals to identifying foods for each animal.

A few stations were craft station like clothespin butterflies and a mouse bookmark.  They had a variety of information for the participants to take home including some cards that were for each animals, very similar to baseball cards.  A few station were even hands on learning with animals.  Check out this snake!

 

Follow Up Activities at  Home

As we finished I wanted to make sure that the message they were teaching our children carried through at home.  We brought home materials about the animals and colored the papers.  Then I encouraged my oldest daughter who’s 6 to do a little research about them and write about the specific topics they shared.  This is an easy way to make connections at home to what your sharing with your child.

Activities for Earth Day

Here’s Amanda’s Experience Last Year with Printable for Party for the Planet Activities .  Can’t wait to have a little Picnic for the Planet today after school with my daughter.  We’re making our Earth Fruit Snacks!

Zoo Themed Yoga with Kids 


 Top 10 Reasons I Love Watching My Children Learn About the Earth


100 Ways to Celebrate Earth Day Every Day with Kids

 

 

Don’t forget that next week starting April 29 to May 5
we’ll be Screen Free on The Educators’ Spin On It.
April 27 we’ll be sharing Screen Free Resources and Activities to make it a fun week!
 I hope you’ll join us!  Let us know below in the comments if you’re joining us!

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Filed Under: Science Tagged With: After School Link Up, Earth Day, Eco Living, grade school

About Kim Vij

Early childhood teacher, author, speaker and mom of 3. Kim shares ways to make learning fun and parenting an adventure by sharing developmentally appropriate activities.

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Comments

  1. Steph says

    April 22, 2013 at 8:21 am

    Love your blog! Thanks for hosting this link up. My girls and I LOVE nature and love this time of year so that we can get out and enjoy it…it's so beautiful. Also thanks for the ideas to celebrate earth day. Looking through it as soon as I post this comment. Have a great day!

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  2. Kim @ The Educators' Spin On It says

    April 22, 2013 at 8:31 am

    Steph thank you so much for leaving such a sweet comment. We're so glad that you stopped by. As you can see we LOVE nature too! Looking forward to hearing how you celebrate Earth Day this year.

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  3. Mary Catherine says

    April 22, 2013 at 7:44 pm

    Thanks so much for hosting such a wonderful link-up. Looks like you and yours had a great time celebrating Earth Day! 🙂 Off to check out the great ideas shared above…

    Reply

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