Earth Day Books and Activities for Kids

One of our favorite ways to celebrate Earth Day is with this list of great Earth Day books to help your child learn why we should care for our planet.

Earth Day on its way and one of our favorite ways to celebrate is with great picture books to help your child learn why we should care for our planet and what Earth Day is all about!

Earth Day is celebrated in April every year, but here at The Educators’ Spin On It, we believe that the earth should be celebrated each and every day.

Grab a good book and an earth day activity for kids.

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Earth Day Books and Activities for Kids

Choose a book.
Then do an activity!

Earth Day Activities for Kids

Click on the sentences below for a detailed description of each earth day activity.

• Plant a seed with your family.
• Visit a local park.
• Make a healthy earth day snack
• Make a chalk earth.
• Let your children explore nature.
• Make upcycled stacking blocks for babies.
• Visit a zoo and learn about animals.
• Make an earth day craft.
• Climb a tree.
• Host or attend a party for the planet
• Learn about land and water.
• Play outside.
• Make an upcycled cardboard box toy.
• Go on a Virtual Field to learn about the Earth

Earth Day Books for Kids

The EARTH Book by Todd Parr

Earth Day Every Day by Lisa Bullard

The Earth And I (Rise and Shine) by Frank Asch

Big Earth, Little Me by Thom Wiley

Earth Day–Hooray! (MathStart 3) by Stuart Murphy

Compost Stew: An A to Z Recipe for the Earth

This Is Our Earth

Thank You, Earth: A Love Letter to Our Planet by April Pulley Sayre

My Friend Earth: (Earth Day Books with Environmentalism Message for Kids, Saving Planet Earth, Our Planet Book)

Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth by Oliver Jeffers

Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years (Our Universe)

One Earth by Eileen Spinelli

Heal the Earth by Julian Lennon

I Am Earth: An Earth Day Book for Kids by Rebecca and James McDonald

Books to Celebrate Earth Day that Encourage Recycling

Recycle!: A Handbook for Kids by Gail Gibbons

What a Waste: Trash, Recycling, and Protecting our Planet by Jess French

Recycling! (Helping Hands Series) by Jess Stockham

Curious George Discovers Recycling (science storybook)

Michael Recycle Meets Litterbug Doug by Ellie Bethel

Michael Recycle by Ellie Bethel

One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia (Millbrook Picture Books)

The Adventures of an Aluminum Can: A Story About Recycling (Little Green Books)

Books to Celebrate Earth Day with Your Favorite Characters

Biscuit’s Earth Day Celebration

Fancy Nancy: Every Day Is Earth Day (I Can Read Level 1)

How to Help the Earth-by the Lorax (Dr. Seuss) (Step into Reading)

It’s Earth Day! (Little Critter) by Mercer Mayer

There are so many great books to read with your child as they explore the earth.

Here are our 100 Earth Day Activities that you can do after you read this fun Earth themed stories.

We’d suggest starting with a virtual tour of the earth on a Virtual Field Trip!