Earth Day Party

Host an Earth Day party and bring environmental awareness to friends and family. This type of party is fantastic for celebrating birthdays, anniversaries and the earth. We should appreciate nature and everything we receive from it every day. What a great reason for a party.

Host an Earth Day party and bring environmental awareness to friends and family. This type of party is fantastic for celebrating birthdays, anniversaries and the earth. We should appreciate nature and everything we receive from it every day. What a great reason for a party.

Earth Day Party Decorations

• Use the color theme: greens and blues
• For all inspiration look to our environment
• Wild natural flowers, twigs / leaves for centerpieces
• Twinkle lights always look beautiful (for outside at night)
• Set up dining tables or a large quilt for a picnic blanket
• Hang old chandeliers and put in candles for the lights
• Lanterns and candles
• Use wooden wicker baskets and wooden bowls to hold activities or silverware

Earth Day Activities

• Clean up a Park or Nature Trail - Take a walk with a plastic bag and help clean up your local areas. This is a great teaching for a younger crowd. You unfortunately might be surprised at how quickly you are able to fill a bag. Take along some hand sanitizer.

• Paint Pine Cones - You can paint them all the same color and hand them with fishing wire or necklace string to create a mobile or you can turn the pine cone into an animal. Add arms and legs from pipe cleaners or construction paper. Once you add google eyes the animal will all come together.

• Rock Paper Weighs - Find some unique shaped rocks with a flat bottom to become a perfect paper weight. You can choose to leave your rock natural or you could paint a picture or design on your rock.

• Paint Garden Rocks - All you need to do is find beautiful rocks, paint with acrylic paint and then you need to cover them with a shellac to help water and weatherproof them. They will last pretty well, you may wish to bring them inside for any snowy weather. These look great if you put a nice saying or a nice picture that makes you feel a bit of zen.  

• Recycle Art - Have a box filled with ‘recyclable’ materials. Some examples might be pebbles, twigs, leaves, flowers, sand, etc. Have a canvas or cardstock paper and glue to help create the piece of art.

• Plant a Tree or Vegetable Garden - Both of these will give back if we are responsible with watering. The tree will give us clean oxygen and shade for a hot sunny day and the garden will give us organic vegetables. The act of gardening will make you feel great and if you are doing this with younger people it helps to teach them about nature, where food comes from and how to grow their own food.

• Earth Day T-Shirts - Tie-dye some shirts with tea bags and colorful foods. Nature provides us with an abundance of interesting items. Especially to think that something from nature is able to provide us with dye for clothing.

• Earth Piñata - Make at home and fill with little wildflower seeds. Hang outside from a big old tree. The seeds may grow flowers or provide food for birds and small animals.

• Hatch and Release Butterflies - This will take some planning in advance. Order in the butterflies and keep them in an aquarium. Then once they become butterflies you have a small window of time to release them into the air. It is magical and so memorable.

• Earth Day Scavenger Hunt - Have a premade list of items to find on a nature walk like birds, flowers, trees, butterfly, water, pinecone, etc.

• Make a Homemade Bird Feeder - Make a birdfeeder using an old pinecone, wowbutter and birdseed. Roll the pinecone into the wowbutter and then coat it with birdseed. Hang these from trees at different heights using twine.

• Make Homemade Paper - These are a few simple steps to take inorder to make homemade paper. Use approximately six cups of recycled paper (hint: use light papers as the paper you make will have the similar colors). Tear with two inch wide strips. It doesn't matter how long the paper stripes are. Soak the paper in warm water for four to six hours (add ½ cup of vinegar if you want to lighten your paper). Put the mushy paper into a blender and add two to three cups of water and blend then combo. Add some wildflower seeds and food coloring if you desire to your blended mixture. Get a large metal lasagna tray and fill half with water and then dump in the blender mixture. Have a screen with edges that you submerge into the water. Shake the mixture back and forth like panning for gold. Do this within the water until the mixture is level - this will make flat paper. Hold the screen to drain water for a few minutes. Then transfer the mixture onto a towel. Pat down the paper to help dry with another cloth. Let your paper then dry overnight. The drying process may take around eight hours. 

Earth Day Party Food and Drinks

Host a traditional outdoor BBQ! Serve all the traditional or make your favorite foods and salads Pinwheels  Grape and blueberry skewers  Try to serve organic foods Make earth, moon and star sugar cookies Worms and dirt - chocolate pudding with oreo crumble top and top this with gummy worms Make an Earth cake

Earth Day Cake

• Host a traditional outdoor BBQ! Serve all the traditional or make your favorite foods and salads
• Pinwheels 
• Grape and blueberry skewers 
• Try to serve organic foods
• Make earth, moon and star sugar cookies
• Worms and dirt - chocolate pudding with oreo crumble top and top this with gummy worms
• Make an Earth cake

Earth Day Cake

Fun Earth Day Favors

• Earth beach ball
• Puzzle of the Earth or solar system
• Small Globe

Eco-friendly Favors

• Make a Jar Bouquet - Use old baby food jars  or mason jars. Fill them with dirt and seeds and have them growing already. Plant seeds for herbs, flowers, or veggies. Make a homemade label with the Earth thanking them.

• Seedling Tree - Send home a tree for your guests to plant in another special place. Have the roots and some dirt wrapped in a burlap sack and tie a piece of twine around it. Have a label letting your guests know the species of tree and growing specks for the seedling.