This coffee filter Earth craft is the perfect Earth Day craft for kids of nearly any age. It’s ideal for preschool and kindergarten children, but older kids enjoy making our coffee filter crafts for kids as well.
It is simple to make at school or at home and uses only a few common craft supplies. Plus, it only takes about 15 minutes (plus drying time).
I love how simple this is to make and how much fun kids have making them!
Looking for more crafts and activities like this? Don’t miss our tissue paper Earth preschool craft, fingerprint solar system craft, and our book of 15 cute coffee filter crafts.
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Earth Day Coffee Filter Craft
This easy and inexpensive Earth craft is the perfect project to make at home as a family or at school for a simple Earth Day art center activity.
It only requires 3 simple supplies and is very quick to make!
Along with celebrating Earth Day, this is a fun activity to include for a space themed week or solar system unit study.
Preschoolers and kindergartners will practice fine motor skills as they color the coffee filters with washable markers.
Elementary school age children practice their geography skills by using a world globe to try to add different continent shapes. Challenge older children to create different shapes based on the angles you can view on the globe.
Children will love spraying these coffee filters with water and watching the colors blend too.
You can also do a little science activity with them: experiment if putting specific colors next to each other creates new colors during the blending stage. While the kids wait for their coffee filter Earth to dry, they can work on these Earth Day coloring pages.
These may require additional drying time depending on how much water is sprayed on the coffee filter during the blending stage.
It’s important to protect your work surface by placing the coffee filters on top of a craft mat, parchment paper, zippered plastic bag, or even a paper plate before spraying.
These Earth Day fine motor activities are perfect to for young learners to work on while waiting for their coffee filters to dry. Older kids may appreciate reading these Earth Day puns and jokes to each other.
Once dry, you can use your homemade planet Earth to decorate your classroom or virtual school space.
You can also make a game with them and have your students try to guess which continents each student drew.
Coffee Filter Earth Craft Supplies:
- Round White Coffee Filters
- Washable Markers
- Water Spray Bottle (for color blending)
- Paper Plate, parchment paper, ziploc bag or craft mat
How to Make a Coffee Filter Earth:
Flatten out round coffee filters.
Draw on them, using washable markers, making continent shapes with green markers and lightly shading the rest of the area with blue markers for the water.
Place the colored coffee filter on a paper plate, sheet of parchment paper, craft mat or large zipper baggie and spray with water.
Have fun watching the magic of the colors move and blend! Set aside to dry.
These may require additional drying time depending on how much water is sprayed on the coffee filter during the blending stage.
That’s it!
More Coffee Filter Crafts:
- Coffee Filter Butterfly
- Coffee Filter Rainbow
- Coffee Filter Ladybug
- Coffee Filter Bee
- Coffee Filter Bats
- Coffee Filter Turkeys
Coffee Filter Earth Craft
Make a coffee filter Earth to celebrate Earth Day or while learning about the solar system. Perfect for preschool and kindergarten children.
Instructions
- Flatten out round coffee filters.
- Draw on them, using washable markers, making continent shapes with green markers and lightly shading the rest of the area with blue markers for the water.
- Place the colored coffee filter on a paper plate, sheet of parchment paper, craft mat or large zipper baggie and spray with water.
- Have fun watching the magic of the colors move and blend! Set aside to dry.
- These may require additional drying time depending on how much water is sprayed on the coffee filter during the blending stage.
Notes
It’s important to protect your work surface by placing the coffee filters on top of a craft mat, parchment paper, zippered plastic bag, or even a paper plate before spraying.
Drying time varies depending on the amount of water used.