Earth Day

Earth Day!

In our house we try and do our part to celebrate Earth Day everyday but it's always fun to make Earth Day a special day with some fun Earth Day activities.

We started out by reading a few books. 

Choose to Reuse

Illustrated by Miriam Latimer

 

It's an adorable book about reusing items in your house that you normally would toss but with a little imagination it can come to life as something else.

It is also a touch & feel book.

 

Curious George

Plants a Tree

by Margret & H.A.Reys

Then we make some Earth Sun Catchers

First we painted some coffee filters with water colors to look like the earth.

 

Then we let it dry.

Then we hung it in the window to let it shine!

Then we made Recycled Earth Day Crayons! 

To make these super cute & super easy Recycled Crayons all you need is the following.

• Broken up blue & green crayons. I just pull out all the broken ones and use those. 
• A muffin tin. I use one that I picked up at for really cheap to use just for melting crayons.
• An oven set @ 250*

Step 1 

Preheat the oven to 250*

Step 2  

 Take the wrappers off all the crayons.

Step 3

Brake the crayons up into small pieces.

Step 4

Place them into the muffin tin. I put in 2 layers so it's about 1/3 of the way up. (you could do more I'm sure it would just take a longer baking time.)

Step 5 

When your oven is preheated place the tin in the over for 10-15 minuets.

 

Step 6

Once the crayons are melted, take them out of the oven and let them cool. This takes about 10 minutes or so.

Step 7 

Turn the muffin tin over & pop them out. Sometime you will need to press on the bottom of the tin to help them out.  

  
Presto! 

brand new recycled crayons.    

 






I like how the greens and blues came out. It's neat to see how the different shades translate once they are melted down.   
We have also made these in diffrent shapes. After the holidays I buy the silicone baking sheets and use them for next year. I have even made them for Ian's class during the holidays.