Low-cost activities from recycled materials are easy to make and fun to wear!
Check out North State Parent’s picks to inspire Earth Day awareness his year. From crafts and building composts, to volunteering and learning about farms, we’ve got you covered.
Make a Newspaper Hat, Tiny Tree House, or Cork People:
Make an Earth Day Maze:
Butte Environmental Council Resources
- Butte Environmental Council – Encouraging the preservation and conservation of the Earth’s natural resources. Volunteers can get involved in efforts throughout the year.
- BEC’s RARE At Home Challenge Series – Every Tuesday offers a post with a new activity and topic – help for you and your family to implement sustainable habits at home. Some you may already do and some may be an issue that you hadn’t yet considered.
- Topic 1: FOOD WASTE.
- Did you know a large contributor to greenhouse gasses such as methane from landfills is our food waste? Not only can that food be kept from the landfill, but it can also be turned into new soil used to fertilize your plants and increase soil health and productivity. Composting is easy, can be done at home, and can be created using items you might typically throw in the trash or recycling. If you have a plastic water jug or empty 2-liter soda bottle around, you are set to start this composting experiment. Check back on your bin daily and watch natural processes turn your food waste into compost that you can use. Full instructions.
- Topic 1: FOOD WASTE.
- BEC’s Energy Saving Toolkit Video – Looking to understand the light bulbs and other energy-saving details in your house?
Choose Hope
This has been a time like no other in recent history. Let’s all work together to spread LOVE not fear. Enjoy Choose Hope, a collaboration of over 250 filmmakers who came together to share their message of hope not fear during the worldwide Covid-19 health crisis.
Maagic Mountain Farms (Mount Shasta, CA)
Tours will be offered after Covid-19 social-distancing is lifted. Book your family tour now for a summer visit. Enjoy the ducks, chickens, and darling baby goats in a beautiful setting.
National Volunteers Appreciation Week (April 19 – 25)
Let’s hear it for the volunteers sewing quarantine masks! You can help with this effort. Redding Fashion Alliance Sewing Masks
Taproot Magazine
North State Parent publisher Pamela Newman’s magazine of inspiration for crafting, cooking from scratch, and gardening. It’s something you might enjoy as well if you like doing handwork, cooking from scratch, and sewing. Enter our contest for one lucky North State Parent magazine reader to win a subscription!
Yosemite National Park
Find out what is happening at phenomenal Yosemite National Park even during the park’s Covid-19 closure. Junior Ranger Day video, drawing a marmot and following the wildlife through some of the most pristine wilderness in America.
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