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We’ve found 110 activities:
Play shrinking habitat
This game’s all about how habitats are shrinking and how this impacts the animals that live in them.
Supported by
Nattergal
20 mins
Outdoors
Play GPS i-Spy
Discover Earth from space and how satellites help us to explore our world.
30 mins
Indoors
Journey around the sun
Explore how Earth spins and moves around the sun to create days, years and seasons in this fun, interactive activity.
Supported by
UK Space Agency
40 mins
Indoors
Make a plastic bottle lid mosaic
Collect plastic bottle lids, then put them together to turn them into art.
1 hr
Indoors
Make an Earth suncatcher
Make some tissue-paper versions of Earth, then hang them in windows to let them shine.
1 hr 30
Indoors
Make planets from nature
Create Earth out of natural materials, then invent your very own planet!
Supported by
UK Space Agency
50 mins
Outdoors
Try the oil spill clean-up challenge
Learn about water pollution by trying to tidy up after a mini oil spill.
1 hr
Outdoors
Write here, write now
Make it newsworthy and share a story you’re passionate about with the world.
Supported by
Generation Green
1 hr
Indoors
Green hearts
Go green and share your ideas for the environment with this fun craft.
20 mins
Indoors
Recycling binception
Where do you store your recycling? Try making a bin out of recycling to put it in.
Supported by
Generation Green
20 mins
Indoors
Play Treetop Twist
Learn about all the different parts of a tree in this quick, fun, Captain Coming’s style game.
40 mins
Indoors
Plan a video experience on conservation
Use the screen for green as you plan a video experience around conserving the planet!
1 hr 30
Indoors
Make an apple bird feeder
Feed the bird with this super quick and easy activity.
45 mins
Outdoors
Take on a screen-time switch off challenge
Take on the switch off challenge to find a healthy balance between time on and away from screens.
15 mins
Indoors
Try making sun prints
Understand the power of the sun and what sunlight is, then create artwork using the sun’s energy.
30 mins
Outdoors
Go fishing for plastic pollution
Try this fun activity to learn about water pollution and sort the rubbish from the recycling.
45 mins
Indoors
Learn how to reduce your energy usage
Learn about energy usage and how we can help reduce it in this fast, fun, cups and saucers game.
Supported by
Gas Distribution Networks
30 mins
Indoors
Try the Beat the Heat experiment
Discover how different colours absorb heat in this fun experiment with water
1 hr
Outdoors
Go wild with wind power
Learn about wind and wind energy, then test how powerful wind can be.
40 mins
Indoors
Explore different water worlds
Create miniature water worlds, then explore the water cycle.
1 hr
Indoors
Try an ice-speriment!
Learn about rising sea levels with this frozen experiment and try to melt the ice cubes.
1 hr
Indoors
Make climate change posters
Create posters that champion a better world, locally and globally.
1 hr
Indoors
Learn about fantastic flowers
Explore how flowers help to make life on Earth possible, then make some seed art.
30 mins
Indoors
Play Microplastic Mayhem
Learn about microplastics, then play a game to protect the whales from plastic.
20 mins
Indoors
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