Every Day is Earth Day
While Earth Day festivities have come and gone, we truly believe every day is Earth Day! It’s up to us to do our part to be mindful citizens and caretakers of our world.
To celebrate Earth Day on its 50th anniversary, we hosted a special class to inspire our learners to protect our planet. We learned about the 3 Rs: reduce, recycle, reuse and made our own play dough using common pantry items. In addition to getting our hands dirty and having fun, we demonstrated that we can reduce our consumption with a little creativity using things we already have!
To cap off our celebration with a sweet ending, we also made Earth Sugar Cookies, bringing our families together in the kitchen, which is one of our favorite ways to bring math to life!
We hope these recipes inspire you and your family to be creative, conscious citizens of our planet today and every day.
Earth Play Dough Recipe
Ingredients:
2 cups flour
2 tablespoons cream of tartar
1/2 cup salt
3/4 cups warm water
food coloring (blue and green)
Instructions:
Mix the flour, salt, cream of tartar and slowly add the warm water.
Knead the playdough with your hands until it gets a proper consistency.
Divide it into smaller balls and add a few drops of the food coloring to make it blue and green.
Earth Sugar Cookie Recipe
Ingredients:
3 cups all purpose flour
1 cup room temperature butter
1 cup granulated sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
1 egg
2 teaspoons baking powder
food coloring (blue and green)
Instructions:
In a small bowl, combine flour and baking powder.
In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar. Beat in vanilla and egg until smooth. Gradually add flour mixture until combined.
Remove half the dough and add blue food coloring, gently mix until combined. Do the same with remaining dough and green food coloring.
Pull pieces of blue and green dough and roll together.
Place on a parchment lined cookie sheet about 1.5 inch apart and bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.
