Kids activities

Watch us flutter into fun! 🦋 My daughters and I are making these super easy and colorful coffee filter butterflies. They’re a perfect spring craft!

A fun and engaging activity for kids of all ages! And a great opportunity to bond with your child!

A fun and engaging activity for kids of all ages! And a great opportunity to bond with your child!

The Easy Way to Make Your Own Custom Ornaments!

Most of us, adults, know well the 3Rs meaning – reduce, reuse and recycle and is important to make sure kids understand their responsibility towards our planet too. Every year on 22nd of April we celebrate Earth Day and it’s a perfect moment to educate and teach our children about our amazing planet and what they can do to protect it. Here are some favourites activities we have made over the years with my daughter Aurora that is now 4 years old. I have put together for this occasion a fun Earth Day Activity Pack FREEBIE – GET IT HERE! Here is our list of activities you can enjoy at home or in the classroom. Let’s get started! Earth Day Activities list ???? 1. Go play in nature  Go outside, have a walk in a park, or in a forest! Take a trip to the lake or in the mountains. The very best way to celebrate Earth is to connect and explore nature and be outside as much as possible. Kids are amazing natural explorers, they will find so many opportunities to birdwatch, listen to birds singing, observe insects and wildlife around them. 2. Organize an Earth Day Scavenger Hunt While children explore nature explain them what they just found, have opportunities of vocabulary enrichment and communication. You can use ready printed Nature Scavenger hunt templates. Scavenger hunt templates I created: 1. Earth Day Hunt – check it here 2. Nature collection frame – here 3. Spring Learning Pack  3. Create a pinecone bird seeder Let’s fed the birds by creating our own bird seeder from items we can have around the home such as pinecones or oranges. See in the pictures what you need: a pinecone, bird seeds, peanut butter and a string! 4. Build an insect hotel Have fun and build a bugs hotel from upcycling items you have around the house like a box and cannelloni pasta, add some plastic bugs, stones, sticks, leaves and some sensory fillers such as rice and taste safe earth from coffee, black tea and flour and let the fun begin!???????? 5. Start a seed jar   Create a lovely set up with some beans , little jars and cotton pads. Let the beans soak in lots of water inside the jars for a couple of weeks, they will spout like in the pictures below and grow little plants. Let the child observe and add water as he waits the plant to grow bigger. After 3 weeks set up a new activity and invite the child/children to transfer the plant in new containers. Use recycled yogurt jars or egg shells, add soil and invite the children to water their new plants.  ???? It will be a beautiful experience to let the children watch their experiments grow before their eyes! 6. Make an Earth Day Handprint Keepsake We just made this interesting activity with both my girls and they were so excited about it. Everyone is excited when working with playdough, isn’t it? Watch here the tutorial and the blog post! 7. Learn how to recycle Create a set up at home for your child using little objects and some recycling bins that can be the ones in the picture (these are pen holders and you can find them with low price in amazon and the little objects are actually stickers I bought on dollar tree, 2 years ago) and learn about recycling in a fun way! 8. Make nature art  Use sticks, stones, leaves that you gathered from your nature walk and paint them, create art, stick them on a paper frame or create an wooden sticks frame, add a sticky paper and ask your child to add nature treasures, like in this post ???? 9. Grow flowers, vegetables or fruits.  Make your own little garden either you are living in a city or in countryside. There are plenty of opportunities to do it.  10. Go visit a farm  Take your kids on a farm visit trip. The opportunities of learning is huge and it’s so fun to see and learn how plants grow, to experience food directly from the trees/plants, create their own snack by picking food themselves and taste it. Also an animal farm is an amazing opportunity so the children can see for example where the milk comes from. This spring we visited both a vegetable farm and an animal farm and there were both amazing experiences for the kids. I hope you enjoyed our post. There are a lot more ways to teach children the responsibility towards our planet in a fun way. These activities teach children to appreciate what the nature gives us and protect the environment and its resources. When we indirectly teach them through these fun activities, it will inspire and teach them to respect the environment around them and to make the world a better and safer place to live in! ????♻

I am excited to share this Earth Day activity we tried for the first time with my daughter, Aurora, 4 years old. We all love playdough in our home and love to create sensory play set ups, keepsakes or just leave the playdough in a tray available for my girls in our art area. I will attach some pictures and share a tutorial about how we made our  Salt Dough Earth Day Handprint and Photo Keepsake! ????????  Here is out video tutorial on how we made this fun and lovely memory! Check the Earth Day Keepsake tutorial on our Instagram page! https://montessoriindailylife.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Movie0041.mp4 Here is what you need: blue and green salt dough, a small picture of your child/children heart shaped and laminated, a piece of string, a heart shaped cookie cutter and a round silicon cake mold. ATTENTION: for this project use a silicon mold not a normal baking tray because you risk that your keepsake will break once you will remove it from the tray. Playdough recipe: 1 1/2 cup of flour, 1 1/2 cup of salt and about 3 quarter cup of water. Add food coloring in the water before you start mixing. Mix slowly until you get the right consistency. We mixed together the blue playdough with the green one to create a marbled look just like our planet. Ask the child to press it down smoothly until it gets to 1cm of height, press handprint and make holes for the string. Use the cookie cutter to press out a heart in the middle of the hand palm. Use a toothpick to write any info you like. We wrote 2023 ???? Bake it for 3 hours at 100′ C Let it cool completely. We left it overnight. Next day I added the string and I glued the picture of my daughters Aurora and Francesca. I hanged it on a door. It looks so pretty, don’t you think? I hope you will make it! For any questions write me on my Instagram page messenger. Check out our Instagram page at Montessori In Daily Life for more kids activity ideas, Montessori parenting approach, Montessori spaces, DIY’s, freebies and amazing sales! If you have any questions please feel free to ask me here and don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletter to receive your PRACTICAL LIFE mini Guide for FREE!???? Earth Day Freebie alert! So excited to share with you this cute Earth Day mini pack FREEBIE! I hope you and your little ones will enjoy it! Get your FREEBIE!