Creative Activities for Earth Day

Support KS1 & KS2 pupils’ questions and themes around the environment emergency

13 April 2026

Welcome back to the Summer Term! We hope you have had a restful break and ready for an action-packed Summer Term.

This year we have been launching packs of resources as part of our Teaching for Creativity programme.

We are excited to share with you our Sparking Change Pack which contains several Taster Cards linked to climate change and the environment. We hope that these cards will compliment the learning you are doing in school and give you new ideas for how you can approach some of difficult questions and themes around the environment emergency.

With Earth Day next week (22 April), we hope that these activities will support your exploration of such an important theme in school.

Sparking Change

  • A New Direction believes that creativity is an essential skill and we aim to support schools and teachers to help children reach their creative potential through dynamic lessons designed to develop critical creative thinking skills. The pedagogy underpinning our work comes from Bill Lucas and Ellen Spencer’s work on the five Creative Habits of Mind – a concept developed from decades of research that has now been widely adopted into learning policies across the globe.
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  • All the learning is linked to these five creative Habits of Mind, meaning that children are developing key skills such as collaboration, persistence and discipline whilst actively engaging in learning that challenges them to be inquisitive and imaginative.

On Earth Day (22 April):

  • Are you in need of some new ideas and approaches to exploring the climate emergency with children at your school?
  • If the answer is yes, then we have some a bundle of accessible and creative resources for you to delve into.
  • Taster cards are quick and easy activities that you can use as prompts for longer lessons or as stand-alone activities. Suggestions are given of how you can adapt activities for different year groups. We’ve also signposted you to longer lessons and highlighted how these can be used.

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