In this post: Teach your kids about Earth Day in Spanish with free printables, activities, and other resources!
Looking for Spanish Earth Day activities for kids?
Earth Day is a great time to teach your kids about the beauty of nature and the importance of caring for our planet. In this post, you’ll find free Spanish printables, books, songs, and simple ways to teach El Día de la Tierra at home.
Whether you’re raising bilingual children or adding Spanish to your homeschool, these ideas make learning about the environment both fun and meaningful.
How Do You Say Earth Day in Spanish?
Earth Day in Spanish is: El Día de la Tierra (ehl dee-yah deh lah tyeh-rrah)
What are some other common Earth Day words in Spanish?
Some useful vocabulary to use in your Spanish Earth Day activities include:
- la Tierra (Earth)
- el medio ambiente (environment)
- reciclar (to recycle)
- la naturaleza (nature)
- reducir (to reduce)
- reutilizar (to reuse)
Spanish Environment Unit Study (El Medio Ambiente)
In our Level 3 Llamitas Spanish Curriculum, we have an entire unit dedicated to learning about ‘el medio ambiente’ (the environment).
Students will learn about how to care for our planet, how to recycle, renewable and non-renewable energy sources, the plant lifecycle and so much more!
Students will also study different biomes like the Atacama desert and how animals and plants are adapted to thrive and read the epic folktale about La Madremonte.
La Madremonte is one of six Latin American and Spanish folktales included in our bilingual anthology. It tells the tale of a beautiful and fierce mythical creature called Mother Mountain, and how she responds to a greedy lumberjack who cuts down her forest.
Easy Spanish Earth Day Activities for Kids
Ready to celebrate El Día de la Tierra in Spanish? These fun hands-on activities help your kids build Spanish vocabulary while learning how to care for our planet!
Recycling Sorting Game
Hold onto your recyclables for this activity! Gather up items from your house (paper, plastic, metal, and glass) and have your child help sort them into categories.
To make this more competitive, simple bins with labels can be used as your kids race to see who can recycle the most.
Useful vocabulary:
- el papel
- el plástico
- el vidrio
- reciclar
- la basura
Useful phrases:
- “¿Dónde va el plástico?”
- “Vamos a reciclar.”
Find recycling themed lessons in our Level 3 Unit 4: El medioambiente unit.
Seed Planting
Planting seeds is a fun way to learn about the life cycle of a plant in Spanish. If planting indoors, you can use an empty egg carton. Create labels (in Spanish) with craft sticks.
Useful vocabulary:
- la semilla (seed)
- la planta (plant)
- crecer (to grow)
- el agua (water)
- el sol (sun)
Find our plant lifecycle themed lessons in our Level 3 Unit 4: El medioambiente unit.
Nature Scavenger Hunt
Take your learning outside! Go for a walk and look for Earth Day vocabulary in real life.
To make it even more fun and reinforce reading and spelling, you can create a checklist with Spanish vocabulary—your kids will love putting a checkmark next to the things they find.
Useful vocabulary:
- un árbol (tree)
- una flor (flower)
- el cielo (sky)
- un pájaro (bird)
Recycled Artwork
Encourage your child to get creative with items that would otherwise be thrown away. Straws, bottle caps, paper tubes, cereal boxes—the options are almost endless!
Use Spanish vocabulary as you work or even incorporate Spanish Earth Day vocabulary into the artwork, such as la tierra or reducir, reutilizar, reciclar.
Spanish Earth Day Song for Kids
Music and movement is always a fun way to reinforce learning with kids. We love this bilingual Canticos song for Earth Day!
Related post: Canciones ilustradas: Gentle Spanish Songs for Kids
Spanish Books About Earth Day for Kids
Books are one of the best tools for language acquisition. Reading aloud not only immerses your child in the target language, but provides a beautiful bonding experience.
You can even create themed book baskets for your children!
Related post: Here’s Why Thematic Spanish Lessons for Kids Actually Work
10 cosas que puedes hacer para reducir, reciclar y reutilizar
Ages: 7–8
This is a great title by Scholastic to help your child understand the process of managing waste, recycling and doing our part for reducing our carbon footprint!
Lola Planta Un Jardin
Ages 3+
Such a beautiful, diverse title for your bookshelf! We do enjoy the Lola series, and this one is all about gardening and the process of planting seeds and patiently observing the transformation.
In English: Lola Plants a Garden
La Selva de Zonia
Ages: 4–8
This is the beautiful, authentic tale of a Peruvian girl, Zonia, who lives in the Amazon rainforest. But one day, she discovers that something is disrupting the jungle peace and destroying the beauty within it. Great to learn about deforestation.
In English: Zonia’s Rainforest
El día de la Tierra
Ages: 4+
Such a fun sing-along title to help our children how they can help in caring for our planet!
No dejes que desaparezcan
Ages: 4–8
Learn about 12 species on the verge of extinction and what makes each of these animals so unique. A great book for learning about habitats and what causes animals to become endangered.
In English: Don’t let them disappear.
Start Learning Spanish with Your Kids Today
If you’re looking for an easy way to bring more Spanish into your home, our free Spanish printable library is the perfect place to start.
Inside, you’ll find:
- Spanish games
- Themed printables
- Resource guides
Ready to go deeper?
Our done-for-you Spanish curriculum levels include themed units like El Medio Ambiente, with structured lessons, stories, and activities that make language learning feel natural and fun for your child, so you can start building their biliteracy today!
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Founder of the Llamitas Spanish® Curriculum and former Spanish teacher. Corrie holds two Master Degrees in Spanish and Education. She lives in San Diego, California with her husband and two bilingual children.