Earth Day Art with puffy paint Earth

Simple Earth Day Craft and art for younger kids with a quick puffy paint recipe.

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Talking about our planet has become quite easy with the 6 year old since they cover quite a few aspects of it at school. Like many Kindergarteners she has a good grasp of the Solar System and the our planet’s position there. However understanding the environmental conservation aspect of the planet is still a work in progress. While we still talk about the importance of saving our trees, recycling, reusing and generally cleaning up our space we have a long way to go.

Today’s Earth Day Craft and art uses simple materials

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Use a white paper plate and cut out a world map template. The template is really not necessary but my daughter wanted the map inside. So we gave that a go.

For the simple puffy paint we used equal parts white glue and shaving cream { Our 1 minute puffy paint recipe post has tons of details about it}

We used our favorite gel food color {linked above} to get nice bright colors.

If working with younger kids on this Earth Day Craft you could also make green as opposed to just giving them green puffy paint.

Older kids will enjoy talking about the landmass and the water bodies on the planet. Simple questions may arise as to why they are using green for the land instead of brown.

Some kids would want to use their fingers to create their Earth Day art and that’s ok. It is all about exploration!

I just love the peaks and the textures this simple puffy paint recipe produces.

Let the paper plate Earths dry for a while. Once dry you will see the nice and puffed up paint up close. They make beautiful wall art if you want to display them.

If you leave your shaving cream for about 3 days, the puffy paint will go flat and it will eventually dry. However the kids did a cool thing – they were able to remove the map we had painted over since the glue apparently did not do a good job. Once you gently remove the map off the paper plate you will get a beautiful Earth art with lots of texture.