For this week’s activities we are celebrating Earth Week and the planet Earth.
Featuring The Earth Book by Todd Parr these 5 simple activities we have planned are easy to do and great for you and your preschoolers to have fun, create, play and learn at home.
So here you go our Earth Week Activity Plan for Preschoolers featuring The Earth Book by Todd Parr.
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Virtual Book Club for Kids Featured Book The Earth Book
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Our featured book this week is The Earth Book by Todd Parr. This book explains in language preschoolers will understand what they and you can do to help the Earth.
From planting a tree to using both sides of the paper these are little things that can make a difference. With a focus on the environment and conservation, this is great to talk to your little ones about the world today and how they can help make the change for the better.
You can listen to the Read Aloud of The Earth Book here on YouTube.
Don’t forget to scroll down as we have some other books about The Earth ideal for Earth Day and the week below.
Earth Day Songs for Preschoolers
On This Earth | Earth Day Song for Kids | Jack Hartmann
The Earth Song by StoryBots | Netflix Jr
Save the Planet song for kids | Miss Linky
Earth | Space Song | Pinkfong
Earth Day Themed Activities for Preschoolers
Each week, we find 5 simple and fun activities for you and your preschooler to do together. These are hands-on ideas that promote playing, learning, creating, and having fun together. They are chosen as they are quic,k and we have tried them out with our own children.
Although you can do as many or as few as you want, we have a suggested schedule below, taking one activity per day as a focus and mixing in reading time as well. The schedule can be seen below – this is only an idea that has worked for one of our team.
Don’t forget to scroll down to find other book and activity suggestions for this week.
Earth Week Activities for Preschoolers Featuring The Earth Book
Easy, simple and fun activities themed around The Earth and Earth Day featuring the book The Earth Book by Todd Parr for Preschoolers
We loved this Earth Day Sensory bin as not only is the bin filling a natural material (rice) but all of the extras are natural too.
For a week where we are thinking of the environment, this is ideal.
Using the same sensory bin and adding in some letters you can create this simple Earth Day alphabet or word sensory activity for your preschooler.
Change on the words for just letters, work on spelling names or those sight words.
If you have them you could use Wooden Letters instead of plastic focusing again on caring for the planet.
This week’s math activity is focusing on pattern making. With these really simple Earth Dat Pattern Making Activity.
Scroll down the ideas on the post to find out how simple this is to do with your preschooler. Start by working on a 1, 1 pattern and then increase the complexity and get the following along.
We have some delicious Earth Cupcakes (number 6 on the activities).
They are so easy to make you can either use the idea above which is VERY Simple or make your own cupcake batter with this recipe.
There are so many art and craft activities that you could do this week… just raid the recycling and get creative!
However, we love getting creative with shaving foam (a big hit from our summer camp last year) so this Shaving Cream Earth Day Art Project is great for your little ones to do.
Earth Day Books for Preschoolers
Whether you wish to add more books to your collection this week or have trouble finding The Earth Book by Todd Parr we have picked a few of our favorite books to read around Earth Day for Preschoolers.
- Why Should I Recycle! by Jen Green
- I am Earth by Rebecca and James McDonald
- Earth Day Every Day by Lisa Bullard
- We Are All Connected by Gabi Garcia
- My Friend Earth by Patricia MacLachlan
- Compost Stew. An A to Z Recipe for the Earth by Mary Mckenna Siddals
- I Can Save the Earth! by Alison Inches
For more Earth Day Book, take a look at this collection of Earth Day Books for Kids.
Any of our Plant and Seed books would be a good read this week as well so don’t forget to check those out.
You may also enjoy these activities for additional Earth Day Fun!
