Paper Plate Earth Day Man Craft for Kids

This super cute Earth Day man craft for kids uses a paper plate, tissue paper, paint, and construction paper to make the cutest Earth man craft. Perfect for learning all about Earth Day!

To make this cute craft, you will need a few different materials that you can easily find around the home. You may need to start part of the craft, let it dry, and continue on with the rest of the craft later, so it is definitely a two-part craft. It makes the perfect craft for preschool, kindergarten, and more.

For more fun Earth Day crafts, be sure to also check out this fun puffy paint Earth Day craft with an included writing prompt (the writing prompt would also work great with this fun Earth Day craft as well!).

Tips for Success:

*When making this fun Earth Day man craft, you will need to first paint the background of the plate blue and let it dry. We find acrylic paint works best for this as it is brightest. You should paint the bottom/back side of the paper plate.

*You will need green tissue paper for the land on the earth. You should use a glue stick or a glue bottle to glue down the tissue paper once the paint is dry. Either will work. Be sure to cut the tissue paper into small squares and glue them in large green chunks all around the plate.

*Younger children will need some assistance with different steps of this craft. They may need help cutting out the tissue paper, gluing the paper down so it actually looks like land (you could even outline with a pencil where they should glue down), zig-zag folding, and cutting and gluing the details in place.

*Older children may be able to do most of these things on their own. You can give them an example to copy or you can just walk them through each step when they are done with the previous one. My 7 year old can do it pretty independently once shown the example, but my 5 year old really needed walking through it.

*You can connect this fun craft with a lesson on the Earth and Earth Day. Talk about keeping our Earth clean and things we can do to help. Talk about things that kids can actually do themselves, like turn off lights, preserve water, pick up garbage, etc. Read fun Earth Day books and talk about what the Earth looks like. Earth Day is April 22nd, but really, you can talk about helping and loving the Earth any day of the year!

Earth Man Earth Day Craft

Materials:

• Paper Plate
• Blue Acrylic Paint
• Green Tissue Paper
• Scissors
• Glue Stick/Glue Bottle
• White & Red Construction Paper
• Black Marker or Crayon

Directions:

1. Paint the back side of a paper plate with blue acrylic paint and let it dry.
2. Cut green tissue paper into small squares. Using a glue stick or glue bottle, glue small green circular shapes onto the blue plate for the land. Leave some areas of blue to make the water for the Earth. Let it dry.

3. Cut out two long white strips of construction paper and two shorter white strips of construction paper and accordion fold them. Glue the ends of the smaller ones to each side of the paper plate for the arms.
4. Glue the ends of the longer ones to the bottom of the paper plate for the legs.

5. Cut out a small red construction paper heart. Grab the other ends of the white arms and glue each to the sides of the heart.
6. Cut out two small white circles and glue them on for the eyes. Using a black marker, draw on the insides of the eyes and a mouth to finish this sweet earth craft.

*For more fun Earth Day crafts, be sure to also check out this fun Puffy paint Earth craft.