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Earth Day 2008
The Children’s Museum is celebrating Earth Day Saturday Night April 19th, 2008 from 6-9 pm. Join in the fun! Take the “One Thing” pledge and design your own flying disc and kickball. Learn how to use everyday materials to make special projects and make a birdbath for your back yard. Visit the SciDome to see special views of our planet from space and use telescopes in our courtyard to see the stars. Check out the Department of Environmental Protection booth to see what animals you’re helping by caring for the environment. Special animal guests from the Forest Park Zoo will be visiting. Also enjoy face painting, button making, box turtle art, free raffles and maybe you will even have some time left over to relax by the bonfire.
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Pre-registration required
860.231.2830 extension 44
Members $10
Non-members $12
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Earth Day activities for home:
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Design pencil holders
Make Earth Day crafts for kids out of containers you might otherwise throw away. Clean, empty cans make great holders for pencils or other utensils. Make sure there are no sharp edges, and decorate the outside of the can with paint or paper. You can paste magazine pictures onto the outside and then cover it with clear glaze to protect and preserve the images.
The key to a successful Earth Day for kids is to have them understand how to live lightly on our planet. They will inherit the world we leave them and pass it on to future generations. If you get them excited now about not wasting our resources, it will stay with them for life. Show them how easy and fun it can be to reduce, reuse and recycle, and they can truly help save the planet for everyone.
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Make a natural birdfeeder
You don’t need to go to the store to buy a birdfeeder for the yard. Instead, make one with your kids with a few natural things you may have around the house and yard. Find a large, open pinecone. Spread with peanut butter – crunchy or creamy, the birds don’t seem to care – and roll it in birdseed or sunflower seeds. Tie a ribbon or wire to the top, hang it from a tree and enjoy watching the birds as they happily munch away.
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