Materials
school yard or an area park with trees, plants, and flowers
Earth by Penelope York
S Is for Save the Planet: A Howto-Be Green Alphabet by Brad Herzog
Sesame Street Let's Help the Earth by Reader's Digest
Instructions
1. Lay out a long sheet of butcher paper and encourage the children to draw
pictures and color all over it.
2. Cut the paper into jagged sections, approximately 1' in length.
3. Give one section to each child.
4. Select a child to stand up with his section.
5. Call on children, one at a time, to see if their piece fits with the one of the
child standing. If it does, the child remains standing and the children hold
their pieces together. If not, that child sits down and another child tries to fit
his section with the first piece.
6. Keep going until all the pieces fit together and the children are lined up.
They are now ready to go.
More to do Art: Let children make their own puzzles. Encourage them to draw pictures on
paper and mount them on poster board. Then help them cut the picture into
pieces. They are now ready for reassembling.
