Earth Day Treat- Dirt

This special treat for the kiddos at our Earth Day celebration!

I baked 2 large dark chocolate kakes (Betty Crocker) let the cool completely, crumbled them up into a large pan (so fun!)
Added:
gummy worms
chocolate covered raisins
pretzel sticks

2 colorful scoops for the kiddos to use to scoop the dirt into cups and devour. Such a hit!

Eart Day Party Planning part deux- planet earth heart crayons

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The kids and I collected all their broken blue and green crayons and melted them down to create our heart shaped planet earth crayons. What a fun project! And, in recycling the crayons, we are also doing a tiny little good too!

Here's how to:

Step 1: collect all broken blue and green crayons. if your family is anything like ours, you will be amazed at the mountain of broken/discarded crayons. you want more blue than green, since planet earth is mostly water, hence mostly blue ;)

Step 2: chop crayons (on surface that is only used for crafts, the waxy crayons don't wash off)
Step 3: find a heat resistant mold you want to use, ours is heart shaped silicone.
Step 4: fill the shapes, we mixed the colors up, and again, made sure there was more blue than green.
Step 5: "bake" at 250 degrees for about 20 minutes until all crayons have melted
Step 6: with a craft tool swirl the melted wax a little to copy the geographic atlas look

Step 7: let set overnight of for at least 2-3 hours
Step 8: gently remove from mold and keep in airtight container

We can't wait to share these with our friends together with the coloring page we created!

Earth Day Partay planning

The kids and I have started creating crafts and fun for the Earth Day party next weekend and today we finished up our coloring page we are going to hand out to all the children.

 

We had a great time drawing and writing this one. I am always amazed at how much they take in, and how much they have picked up from various reading and conversations. They get it. They absolutely understand the importance of caring for our planet.

I have to give a shout out to one of our favorite books "The Earth Book" by Todd Parr. This book is a fantastic, colorful and fun way to introduce our future environmentalists to the topics.

Earth Day Partaay!

I'm so thrilled to be hosting a Earth Day party at my home this year. On Sunday the 21st of April we will have a open house style party from 11-1.
We are going to have some organic food and beverage, crafts and fun for the kiddos, tree seedlings for the adults- and a showcasing of natural home care products from Shaklee.
Shakee's environmental heritage makes it the perfect company to partner with during Earth Day, and any other day.
Shaklee was the first company in the world to be certified climate neutral, and continuously strive to meet and surpass that honor.

The home care products from Shaklee are completely safe, biodegradable, and simply amazing.

Here's to celebrating our planet and doing our part to take care of her.