Earth Day Activities featuring The Lorax by Dr. Seuss

If you have lived your life so far and never have read The Lorax, now is the perfect time.  Today is EARTH DAY and as we celebrate Earth Day we all stand and think about what we could do to better our world for the next generation.    Dr. Seuss eloquently and gently illustrates with pictures and words what will eventually happen to our world if we do not start conservation efforts now, were needed.  

This is a story that when read, will be encouraging and sad at the same time.  We can not stare with blind eyes at what is becoming of our environment.  We can not ignore the cries of the wild as their homes and means of sustenance is depleted.   So, grab this book and introduce it to your little ones.  

Right now you can find this book in almost all Kohls department stores along with this super soft and cuddly Lorax.   Procedes for the purchase of this $5 cuddly and $5 book go directly towards Kohls Cares

Now, we've hunted and dug and searched and scoured to find you the best Lorax and Earth Day projects for you and your little ones.

Click Here and go to Craft Jr, to make your own Truffula Trees with pompoms, pipe cleaners, craft glue and play-dough.

Make these beautiful butterfly's with your babies.  Visit Here to find out just how easy these beauties are and we suggest glue a magnet to your butterfly and attaching it to your fridge, it's a beautiful reminder of how delicate our world is.  You can also use eye droppers to drop colored water to your project.  This action uses the same muscles that your little one will later use to  cut with scissors, it's good safe and fun practice.

 Plant some seeds!  Show your little one how to produce and grow his or her own veggies or fruits.  Sometimes the gentle hands of a children can grow better produce that a hard working mans.  Here is an idea from our sister site, HomeSpun Threads on how to start your own garden and be conservative at the same time.

Miycreations has a super cool lantern project that encourages children to reuse plastic soda bottles.  Be careful, you could get lost browsing this really awesome, crafty site.  She's got so many fun ideas for crafters and kids. 

Here are a list of books we recommend:

• Fancy Nancy: Every Day Is Earth Day (I Can Read Book 1) by Jane O'connor and Robin Preiss Glasser
• Not Your Typical Book About the Environment by Elin Kelsey and Clayton Hanmer
• A Different Kind of Hero (an illustrated children's environmental fable about a monkey protecting the rainforest) by Leah Beth Evans
• Don't Throw That Away!: A Lift-the-Flap Book about Recycling and Reusing (Little Green Books) by Lara Bergen and Betsy Snyder  
• The Tree Farmer by Chuck Leavell; Nicholas Cravotta and Rebecca Bleau
• If I Ran the Rain Forest: All About Tropical Rain Forests (Cat in the Hat's Learning Library) by Bonnie Worth and Aristides Ruiz
• The Three R's: Reuse, Reduce, Recycle (What Do You Know About? Books) by Nuria Roca and Rosa M. Curto