Make the world a greener place!
Invitations
Email…save a tree! Explain why you are doing this. Ex: It’s best for you, it’s best for me. Please realize this email saves a tree. I’m inviting you to my plant party, would love to see you, please RSVP.
Send a packet of wild flower seeds with the information listed on the back.
Decorations
Plants everywhere – bring all of your neighbor’s plants over and make a forest
Flower pots (to decorate later).
Favors
Plant a seed…pete pots, seeds, water
Saplings of shade trees
Recycled school supplies…paper, notebooks, etc. in a reusable bag
Games / Activities
Hula Hoops for the children to sit in. These will be their “planting pots”
Make Your own Paper - click here for directions
Read “The Giving Tree”
- ask children to tell me what did the tree give the man?
- Is the tree alive? Are we alive? Is it a plant?
- How do you think the tree grew? Seedling, sun, water, earth
- What type of food grew on the tree? Apples
o What other types of food grow on trees?
o Does anything else grow on trees?
- What else do trees and plants give us? Air, homes for animals, shelter, fun
Activity – seedlings growing into trees
- hula hoops are their flower pots
- they start small like seeds (crawl in a ball)
- moms/dads act like the sun and then act like rain
- children slowly grow roots – feet are stuck in the ground and they are squatting
- more sun/rain
- children slowly stand up straight – stem/trunk
- more sun/rain
- children slowly spread their arms out wide to grow petals/branches
- finally they are a tree or plant
Nature Walk
- flowers, trees, plants, grass, bushes
- find big ones (older), new seedlings
- trees that have buds
- trees that have leaves
- plants that are different colors or shapes
- tall grass, short grass
- soft plants, prickly plants, short, tall
Put living things into 2 categories…plants and animals (pics from magazines) and the children glue them onto two different papers – one column is plants, one column is animals
Paint a tree – finger paints…the side of their hand dipped in brown paint is the trunk, then they dip their fingers in different colors to make the leaves
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Go Green Party