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Free Charlotte’s Web Homeschool Unit Study and Fun Hands-on Ideas

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I have a free Charlotte’s Web homeschool unit study today with fun hands-on ideas. Also grab more ideas on my best homeschool unit studies page.

Charlotte’s Web is not only a wonderful story for reading aloud or independent reading time, but it also lends itself beautifully to a wide-open list of topics to study beyond just the title.

Here is a free Charlotte’s Web Unit Study with a bushel of ideas for you whether you want to spend a week or a whole month learning about Wilbur, Fern, and Charlotte.

Free Charlotte’s Web Homeschool Unit Study and Fun Hands-on Ideas

Charlotte’s Web will keep you busy with new vocabulary, learning about things like characters, plot, setting, and point of view.

And of course, it is a wonderful setting to learn all about farm life including the animals that live there. 

To make the book more than just a read you will have to get creative by pulling something from the theme of the book for each of your main subjects.

Facts about Charlotte’s Web Book

I have a few ideas ready to get you going as well as some interesting facts to share with your farmhands.

  • The E.B. in E.B. White, the author, stands for Elwyn Brooks
  • Zuckerman’s farm in Charlotte’s Web was real. E.B. White based it on the farm he grew up on in Maine.
  • Fern did not become a character of the book until the last draft of it was written.
  • Garth Williams, who illustrated Charlotte’s Web is also well known for his illustrations for the entire Little House on The Prairie Series.
  • Wilbur was inspired by a sick pig that White had tried to nurse back to health. Unfortunately, the pig died.
  • Charlotte’s full name is Charlotte A. Cavatica which is a clever reference to her species class, Araneus Cavaticus or the common barn spider.
  • E.B. White won a special Pulitzer Prize in 1978 for all his writings and works.
Free Charlotte’s Web Homeschool Unit Study and Fun Hands-on Ideas

More Charlotte’s Web Resources and Activities

Moreover, grab some of these books to enhance your unit study.

Charlotte's Web Unit Study Resources

Add some of these books to flesh out your unit study if you're studying about farm animals, geography of Main or spiders.

First, here are some fun resources.

Next, look at some unit study science ideas.

Unit Study Science Ideas for Charlotte’s Web

One of the most enticing things about a unit study is being able to tie a lot of subjects to one theme. Look below at ideas for each topic.

Farm Theme Ideas

Choose one of the main character animals like pigs, spiders, rats, geese, or sheep to study. Your child can

  • Watch videos.
  • Write a report.
  • Create a diorama.
  • Paint a picture.
  • Make their animal out of clay.
  • Read books about various animals on the farm.

A great reference book to research farm life, as well as farm animals, is Julia Rothman Farm Anatomy with its beautiful illustrations and great information snippets on a lot of topics.

Free Charlotte’s Web Homeschool Unit Study and Fun Hands-on Ideas

Also, add some fun farm math.

Math Ideas

Use manipulatives to make math hands-on.

  • Measure plastic farm animals, take a poll on everyone’s favorite farm animals, and graph it.
  • Older kids can map out a farm on graph paper and figure out the scale, area, and perimeter.
  • Give simple math a twist by giving farm-themed math problems like “If I had 100 pounds of pig feed and each of my 3 pigs eats 5 pounds per day, how long will it last?” If Zuckerman’s truck had to go 40 miles to the fair and they traveled at 22 mph how long would it take to get there?

Moreover, add some fun hands-on geography.

Geography Ideas

  • The story of Charlotte’s Web takes place in Maine, take this time to learn a little about the state.
Free Charlotte’s Web Homeschool Unit Study and Fun Hands-on Ideas
  • Practice map skills and have your child draw a map of the farm where Wilbur lived including the farmhouse, barn, trees, and any other places they feel are significant.

Language Arts

  • Grab a list of spelling words for the story from Vocabulary.com to practice vocabulary and spelling by using words in sentences, flashcards, and other ways.
  • Draw a spider web with white crayon on white paper, weaving words throughout the lines, and give your child watercolors to reveal the words. As they appear, have them say the word and spell it out loud.
  • Have your child write their own short story about a farm by hand or on the computer.
  • Use farm-themed prompts for journaling- For example, “One morning I woke up and ran outside to the barn to find…”.

Below I have another fun and simple spelling activity.

Free Charlotte’s Web Homeschool Unit Study and Fun Hands-on Ideas

Free Charlotte’s Web Homeschool Unit Study Spelling Web Activity

You will need:

  • Black cardstock
  • White chalk or a white paint marker
  • Hairspray
  • Letter tiles or beads
  • Spelling words list
Free Charlotte’s Web Homeschool Unit Study and Fun Hands-on Ideas

Grab a piece of black cardstock or construction paper and draw a circle in the center with chalk.

Next, draw lines coming out from the circle all the way to the edges of the paper.

You can make it any size you like, depending on the child.

Free Charlotte’s Web Homeschool Unit Study and Fun Hands-on Ideas

Draw a line straight across the middle for spelling words and then a few more lines all the way across from edge to edge.

To get the webbed effect you want to slightly arch your small lines in between the big lines, going all the way around.

Free Charlotte’s Web Homeschool Unit Study and Fun Hands-on Ideas

Finally, if you use chalk, set it so that it doesn’t smudge by spraying it with hairspray and allowing it to dry fully.

Set out your web, spelling words, and the letter tiles-scrabble tiles, letter beads, or lacing letters.

Free Charlotte’s Web Homeschool Unit Study and Fun Hands-on Ideas

Fun Hands-on Free Mushroom Unit Study and Kids Learning Activities

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This mushroom unit study is a fun topic to study any time of the year. Also, grab more ideas on my best homeschool unit studies page.

While you can find many species of mushrooms year-round the very best time to get out and study them in nature is in the fall and in spring.

Fun Hands-on Free Mushroom Unit Study and Kids Learning Activities

Besides, even if you are not able to find any mushrooms in your backyard, fields, or woodland areas there are still plenty of fun hands-on free mushroom unit study and kid’s learning activities to be found.

You can gather resources from the library or Amazon to put together a wonderful nature study on mushrooms so easily.

But first, let’s learn a few fun and fungi facts.

5 Funky Mushroom Facts

  1. Mushrooms grow in all 50 States.
  2. Mushrooms are like plants, but they lack chlorophyll and must take their nutrients from other materials.
  3. Just one Portabella mushroom can have more potassium than a banana.
  4. There are over 30 species of mushrooms that glow in the dark.
  5. The name for those who collect and eat mushrooms from the wild is a Mycophagist. 

Next, add some fun books.

9 Mushroom Unit Study Books

Grab some of these fun books to learn about mushrooms, the part of a mushroom and the life cycle.

Mushroom Unit Study Lesson Plans and Resources

Vocabulary words about mushrooms

  • cap – The cap or the top of the mushroom protects the gills.
  • gills – The gills are the structure that produce the spores, and the spores are similar to seeds.
  • mycelium – The spores germinate into mycelia which are root-like threads that usually grow underground, similar to a root.
  • fungus – any of numerous plants lacking in chlorophyll, including yeasts, molds and mushrooms.
  • asexual – Showing no sexual differentiation (no male or female forms)

Hands-on Activities for Mushroom Unit Study

Get out and explore your own backyard, woodland area, or local state or national park and see what you can find to study firsthand.

We found this growing in a flowerpot that was in the shade and stayed very damp.

Fun Hands-on Free Mushroom Unit Study and Kids Learning Activities

This was growing on the side of a picnic table, which we think might be Turkey Tail.

Fun Hands-on Free Mushroom Unit Study and Kids Learning Activities

And several different types of lichen growing on trees.

Fun Hands-on Free Mushroom Unit Study and Kids Learning Activities

MORE MUSHROOM ACTIVITIES

  • The app iNatrualist is great for helping to identify individual mushroom species, just capture an image of any you find with your phone and plug it in, search for suggestions and you can figure out what you have found.
  • Make these super fun mushrooms for snack time while you study all about them.
  • Try growing your own small batch of oyster mushrooms in just 10 days with this kit.
  • Make a mushroom spore print to get a reverse detail look at the underside of a mushroom, the gills.
  • There is a wealth of great mushroom activities at Treehouse Magazine for middle to upper elementary ages, including printable pdfs with math, crosswords, puzzles, spore prints and more.
  • Make a Felt Mushroom to label. It’s such a fun craft. You will find the directions below.
  • Print these Mushroom worksheets like labeling the parts of a mushroom, coloring pages, life cycles, etc.
  • Play Mushroom themed games like Morels or Funky Fungi.
  • Take the kids to the grocery store or farmers market and check out the different types of mushrooms. Bring some home and try a new recipe together.

Then here is a cute and simple dot to dot mushroom print for the wee little ones.

Fun Hands-on Free Mushroom Unit Study and Kids Learning Activities

In addition, look at more best homeschool unit study ideas.

Best Homeschool Unit Study Ideas

I have many different themes.

Finally, look at this fun hands-on mushroom activity.

Parts of a Mushroom Labeling Activity

You will need:

  • Red, tan, and white felt
  • Black permanent fine-tip marker
  • Scissors
  • Craft/school glue or hot glue
  • Cardstock
Fun Hands-on Free Mushroom Unit Study and Kids Learning Activities

Directions:

Cut out a red slightly oblong piece of red felt for the cap whatever size you like for your labeling activity.

Fun Hands-on Free Mushroom Unit Study and Kids Learning Activities

Cut tiny white pieces for the “spots” on your mushroom.

Fun Hands-on Free Mushroom Unit Study and Kids Learning Activities

Next, cut longer skinny white strips for the “root” or mycelium.

Fun Hands-on Free Mushroom Unit Study and Kids Learning Activities

Further, trace the red mushroom cap onto tan felt but only cut out the bottom third.

Fun Hands-on Free Mushroom Unit Study and Kids Learning Activities

This will be the underside of the mushroom to show the gills.

Draw the gills as curved lines with a fine permanent marker.

Fun Hands-on Free Mushroom Unit Study and Kids Learning Activities

Cut a curve along the bottom of the red cap to show more of the gills.

Also, from the tan color, you will also cut your rectangular stem as well as the volva and ring as seen here in the book we used for reference.

Fun Hands-on Free Mushroom Unit Study and Kids Learning Activities

Too, the ring wraps around near the center of the stem and the volva is the cuplike structure at the base with natural edges and shapes rather than straight across.

Fun Hands-on Free Mushroom Unit Study and Kids Learning Activities

We went back and added a little brown marker to the edges of our tan pieces to help differentiate the parts on the stem after we glued it together.

However, learn from us and make it easy on yourself. Do this step right after cutting.

Fun Hands-on Free Mushroom Unit Study and Kids Learning Activities

Begin assembling your mushroom by gluing the tan gills to the red cap with the stem in between.

Fun Hands-on Free Mushroom Unit Study and Kids Learning Activities

Next, wrap the ring around the stem and glue it in place as well as the volva.

Fun Hands-on Free Mushroom Unit Study and Kids Learning Activities

Moreover, add your little bits of white with glue to the cap.

Fun Hands-on Free Mushroom Unit Study and Kids Learning Activities

Transfer your mushroom to a tray and add a layer of grass and dirt beneath with brown and green felt.

Fun Hands-on Free Mushroom Unit Study and Kids Learning Activities

Add your mycelium to the soil.

Write -mycelium, ring, cap, gills, volva, and stem on cardstock and use them to label each of the parts.

Additionally, you can also use felt to create other mushroom species like Honey Mushrooms.

Fun Hands-on Free Mushroom Unit Study and Kids Learning Activities

Or Hen of The Woods. Finally, we had so much fun creating our mushrooms. Going to give them a try?

Fun Hands-on Free Mushroom Unit Study and Kids Learning Activities

Fun Homeschool Unit Study Egg to Sea Turtle Lesson Plans & Lapbook

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I have some sea turtle lesson plans and sea turtle lapbook today. Grab more ideas on my Homeschool Lapbooks – Powerful Tools For Mastery Learning page. Also grab more ideas on my Best Homeschool Unit Studies page.

We made a detour on finishing up high school for a quick nature read about sea turtles.

From Egg to Sea Turtle Nature Unit Study & Lapbook

I chose Our Sea Turtles as a spine and we weren’t disappointed.

Today, in sharing from egg to sea turtle nature unit study and lapbook, I’ve rounded up some awesome links and ideas for you.

Also, I created a fun lapbook for about upper elementary to middle school for your kids.

From Egg to Sea Turtle Nature Unit Study & Lapbook

Of course, you can decide what ages to use the lapbook for because I never make my lapbooks baby-ish.

Using cursive font and avoiding baby-ish or goofy looking clip art the best I can, I create my lapbooks for all ages.

From Egg to Sea Turtle Nature Unit Study & Lapbook

Sea Turtle Unit Study & Lapbook

First, let me show you how much we loved the book Our Sea Turtles.

It is a 282 page reference book with beautiful color pictures on each page.

It has several sections, including:

From Egg to Sea Turtle Nature Unit Study & Lapbook
  • The Species, Sea Turtle Form and Function,
  • Life Cycle and History, Ecology,
  • Our Sea Turtles on Land,
  • Sea Turtles in Water and
  • Saving our Sea Turtles.
From Egg to Sea Turtle Nature Unit Study & Lapbook

One thing we learned right away that we did not know was that not all turtles in salty waters are sea turtles.

They are truly marine animals and one of the things that makes them different is their shell.

Moreover, sea turtles don’t really have the ability to pull in their head and limbs inside although they can still withdraw their neck.

Although we know that sea turtles are mostly herbivores, we did learn that they won’t pass up some easily captured prey.

From Egg to Sea Turtle Nature Unit

Additioally, we learned about some of the predators of the sea turtle.

The Northern raccoon, ghost crab, fire ants, laughing sea gull, bobcat, fish crow, dolphinfish, crevalle jack, tiger shark and bull shark are a few of the sea turtle predators.

From Egg to Sea Turtle Nature Unit Study & Lapbook

What was really interesting was learning what was inside an egg. Sea turtles have an amniotic egg.

The features of a sea turtle egg include a papery eggshell that protects but is porous (to air and water vapor), and an allantois (fetal membrane) which facilitates respiration and helps with waste.

The yolk sac supplies nutrients for the embryo and it shrinks as the turtle grows.

What we didn’t know was that the amniotic sac is like the equivalent to the placenta in mammals.

Sea Turtle Lesson Plans, Guides, and Background Information.

Along with reading the book  Our Sea Turtles I really loved a lot of these resources. Too, look at some sea turtle lesson plans.

  • Journey of Survival educators guide I found super helpful and used a lot of the information from here to do the lapbook. You can read it online.
  • 22 page pdf educator’s guide has a great roundup of vocabulary words.
  • Grab this fun coloring page with crossword puzzle activity.
  • You love this Sea Turtle Inc. site for great hands-on ideas like make a sea turtle habitat, make a magnet sea turtle for older kids (cool), and a template to create your own hatchling for younger kids. So cute.

Then here are more free plans to use with the book Sea Turtle Science which is also good to add to your sea turtle lesson plans.

Sea Turtle EASY Hands-on Ideas and Activities

Easy Hands-on Math Build a Geometric Turtle @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus
Our Journey Westward

In addition, look at some of these books.

10 Sea Turtle Resources

Add some books about sea turtles and hands-on resources to your lesson or unit study to bring it to life.

Sea Turtle Media

Fun Homeschool Unit Study Egg to Sea Turtle Lesson Plans & Lapbook

Then also, our unit study reminded us of the co-op we had where my sister brought a turtle shell Native American craft made by one of her Native American friends.

From Egg to Sea Turtle Nature Unit Study & Lapbook

I love when we have a tie in to what we learned before in one of our co-ops.

From Egg to Sea Turtle Nature Unit Study & Lapbook

Then of course a family visit to the ocean is a great field trip.

The Galveston coast near us had these new and beautiful benches that are part art and part bench.

From Egg to Sea Turtle Nature Unit Study & Lapbook

Local schools got to decorate them with facts about the marine life that live in the ocean.

It not only makes for a beautiful enhancement to seawall, but a fun way to learn facts.

From Egg to Sea Turtle Nature Unit Study & Lapbook

I think doing a mosaic like this would make a great art project too.

Next, here is my lapbook.

Grab this FREE Sea Turtle Lapbook | Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

The minibooks include:

What Makes a Turtle a Sea Turtle?
7 Species of Sea Turtles layered book.
What Are the Sea Turtle Parts?
The Anatomy of a Sea Turtle.
Sea Turtle Tagalongs trifold book.
From Egg to Sea Turtle Life Cycle Circle book.
The Struggle to Survive.
Predators petal book.

If you’re looking to do any spring nature studies, you’ll want to get a few of the NaturExplorers. I love those studies for multiple ages.

How to Get the Free Sea Turtle Lapbook

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You’ll also love these other nature studies:


How to Make a Simple Wind Vane | Fun Wind Activities Middle School

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If you’re wanting to add fun wind activities middle school, your kids will love this simple wind vane. Also, grab more ideas here Middle School Hands-on Science : Extreme Winds and Free Weather Unit Study for Kids Who Love Hands-on Learning.

Important and valuable science lessons don’t always have to come from books.

You and your student can get a lot out of hands-on experiments, interesting books, and videos.

How to Make a Simple Wind Vane | Fun Wind Activities Middle School

To help you get started on your wind activities middle school journey I have some great resources.

And then let’s put together a very simple but informative hands-on experiment creating a weather vane to determine wind direction.

Wind Activities Middle School Ideas

Start off with a really fun activity that kids of all ages love-paper airplanes. Investigating Wind: Paper Airplane Competition.

Build different styles and sizes, investigate the effects of the wind on them, and record the results.

Another fun and simple activity you can do is to learn about Extreme Winds and grab + a free mini book. 

Grab a Build Your Own Wind Turbine Kit for a firsthand look at wind energy.

Or build a model wind turbine completely from scratch with this tutorial.

Have your middle schooler create their own Anemometer with a few simple household items.

Why not challenge your teen to make their own windsocks, windchimes, and kites to incorporate some art into their studies on wind.

These activities are definitely not just for little ones.

Grab this online self-paced literature course for middle school to go along with the book The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.

Also, look at this mini weather station.

Next, look at these videos to learn about weather and wind.

Videos about Wind

Also, grab these useful books.

Learning about Wind

Wind Activities - Middle School Books

Create fun science learning ideas or a quick unit study from some of these resources.

Finally, look at this simple wind vane activity for your kids.

How to Make a Simple Wind Vane | Fun Wind Activities Middle School

How to Make a Simple Wind Vane With Kids

You will need:

  • Paper or plastic straw
  • Pencil with eraser
  • Cardstock
  • Stick pin
  • Paper plate
  • Plastic cup
  • Sharpie marker
  • Ruler
  • Razor or sharp knife
How to Make a Simple Wind Vane | Fun Wind Activities Middle School

Directions:

Find the center of your plate.

Then have your student draw intersecting lines for N,S, E, W.

If you are doing this with younger students you may want to stop here.

For middle school kids I suggest further adding NE, NW, SE, and SW.

How to Make a Simple Wind Vane | Fun Wind Activities Middle School

Poke a hole with a straight edge razor or knife in the bottom of the cup to fit your pencil tightly.

How to Make a Simple Wind Vane | Fun Wind Activities Middle School

Cut a slit on either end of the straw.

Next, cut cardstock into a 1-11/2” triangle for one end and a trapezoid shape for the other end.

Slide each into a slit and secure with a dab of hot glue.

How to Make a Simple Wind Vane | Fun Wind Activities Middle School

Poke the straight pin down through the middle of the straw and into the eraser.

How to Make a Simple Wind Vane | Fun Wind Activities Middle School

Slide pencil mechanism through the cup and to the plate. Add hot glue as needed to secure any loose pieces.

How to Make a Simple Wind Vane | Fun Wind Activities Middle School

To add weight to your weathervane so it doesn’t fly away outside glue coins or small pebbles to the underside of the plate to anchor it.

Use a compass (you can get an app on your phone if you don’t have one)

Figure out north and point your N indicator on the plate in that direction.

Use your compass to determine the direction the wind is blowing; the arrow indicates the direction the wind is coming from.

 Next, have your child track the wind’s direction throughout the day or week with a simple grid. 

How to Make a Simple Wind Vane | Fun Wind Activities Middle School

Cookie Sheet Activities Make Earth Day Cookies & Fascinating Earth Facts

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Add these fun earth day cookies to your cookie sheet activities. Also, grab this fun idea using cookies to build the Eiffel Tower.

When you’re out on Earth Day on April 22 picking up trash, planting gardens and conserving water take a fun break.

Make these Earth Day cookies and add this idea to your cookie sheet activities.

Cookie Sheet Activities Make Earth Day Cookies & Fascinating Earth Facts

Besides, it’s a great time to learn some fascinating facts about earth.

Too, these Earth Day cookies are a great activity for the whole family, and you will get different results from kids of different skill levels.

For example, encourage your older (middle and high school) kids to go for accurate continents.

Let the toddlers go wild with blobs while you teach them that blue is for water and green for land. That’s a fun super easy introduction to geography.

12 Fascinating Facts About Planet Earth

  1. Earth is the 3rd planet closest to the sun at a whopping 92.67 million miles.
  2. The earth rotates at around 1000 miles an hour- wow!
  3. The circumference of Earth is 24,901 miles.
  4. Some scientists believe that the continents were not always separate but existed as one large landmass that broke apart-Pangea.
  5. Earth is the 5th largest planet in the solar system.
  6. Earth is nicknamed the blue planet or ocean planet, because it is covered in so much water.
  7. The inner core of the earth is made of iron.
  8. The earth’s atmosphere is made up of 6 layers. Those layers are called troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere, and ionosphere.
  9. Did you know that earth is the only planet that is not named after one of the Greek or Roman gods?
  10. Early ancient Greeks, Sumerians, Egyptians, Vikings, and Babylonians believed the earth was flat because of what they could see around them and the belief that the Heavens were above the earth.
  11. The driest place in the world is the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, oddly enough it is right next to the biggest body of water — the Pacific Ocean.
  12. Because the earth is not a perfect sphere its gravitational pull is not the same everywhere. The planet’s surface is bumpy, and water flow, ice drift and the movement of the tectonic plates create different gravity pulls.
Cookie Sheet Activities Make Earth Day Cookies & Fascinating Earth Facts

Then, look at more ideas below for cookie sheet activities and earth science fun.

More Cookie Sheet Activities

Have you ever considered using a cookie sheet for something other than cookies?

Let’s look at some of my favorite cookie sheet activities that can turn a cheap kitchen item (think Dollar Tree) into a useful learning tool.

  • Use a cookie sheet to recreate this Edible Rock Cycle for some tasty earth science.
  • Remember when we did a study on George Washington Carver and made peanut butter cookies as part of our learning? What a great dive into history and science that was.
  •  Use a cookie sheet Cook Ancient Sebetu Rolls and learn about Ancient Mesopotamia.

Next, here are a few that have nothing to do with cooking.

Cookie Sheet Activities Make Earth Day Cookies & Fascinating Earth Facts

Additionally, look at a few more activities to include if you’re learning about this beautiful planet we live on.

More Earth Science Ideas and Activities

Cookie Sheet Activities Make Earth Day Cookies & Fascinating Earth Facts

Finally, let’s get onto the simple tutorial for our Earth Day cookies.

Earth Day Cookies

 You will need:

  • 1 package sugar cookie dough (or your favorite recipe)
  • Green food coloring
  • Blue food coloring
  • A map or globe for reference

First, mix up your cookie dough according to package directions.

Remove ¼ of the cookie dough and put it aside in a separate bowl.

To the larger amount of cookie dough add blue food coloring and mix until desired shade is reached. Due to the yellow of the egg yolk your blue is going to be more of an aqua/turquoise color than blue.

Cookie Sheet Activities Make Earth Day Cookies & Fascinating Earth Facts

Add green food coloring to the smaller bowl of dough and mix well.

Cookie Sheet Activities Make Earth Day Cookies & Fascinating Earth Facts

Roll cookie dough into balls in your hand and then flatten on an ungreased cookie sheet.

Cookie Sheet Activities Make Earth Day Cookies & Fascinating Earth Facts

Pinch off small amounts of green dough and form rough continent shapes.

As they bake, they are going to spread and become a bit misshaped anyway so focus on the fun and getting the general idea more than perfection.

If your butter is too softened your cookies will spread and give you a large flatter cookie.

 If you prefer a thicker, softer cookie pop the dough into the fridge for 15 minutes to chill it before baking.

Bake to the minimum time on your recipe. Keep in mind something about the coloring seems to make them brown and get crunchy edges faster.

Remove from the oven and allow to cool on the pan for a few minutes then transfer to a wire cooling rack. Enjoy.

Cookie Sheet Activities Make Earth Day Cookies & Fascinating Earth Facts