Earth Action Fest this Sunday

Guest Post by Mary Rabinowitz

Here's an information-packed, Earth Day festivities announcement originating from Karen McCollough, parent at the Children's Cooperative Playschool. Thanks, Karen!

Everyone, check out the "Earth Action Fest" this Sunday in Chapel Hill: http://www.earthactionfest.org

Activities will include:

Tree planting
Arts and crafts
Coloring and jewelry-making for kids
Face painting
Bicycle safety inspections by REI
Caricatures by Richard Cloudt
Clown character, Mickey Le Pew, with his environmental magic program (and his family of stuffed skunks!)
And here are some other sites with kid-friendly Earth Day activity ideas -- I just did a quick web search:

This year, Earth Day Network's theme is "Protect Our Children and Our Future." http://www.earthday.net/
http://www.earthday.gov/
http://www.ecokidsonline.com/pub/index.cfm
http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/earthday/
http://www.seussville.com/titles/lorax/
http://www.allspecies.org/neigh/block.htm
http://www.kidsdomain.com/games/earthday.html
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/cool/natrec.htm

Consider going Vegan for Earth Day! http://www.vegan.org/about_veganism/environment.html
http://www.vegfamily.com

Peace,
Karen