6 Arbor Day Activities You Can Do With Your Kids
by Green Matters
Green Matters— Arbor Day is meant to inspire people to appreciate and care for the planets trees. Here's how you can get kids of all ages excited about that idea.
CafeMom—9 Earth Day Crafts & Activities for Kids. Kids can show the Earth a little love with these fun and educational ideas.
KTVZ—Kids and families plant Ponderosa pine tree at COCC for Arbor Day. Several kids and their parents got their hands dirty, planting a soon to be mighty tree at COCC. It was the all ages Pop-Up Pondo Planting Party. The event was a hands-on educational celebration of Ponderosa pine trees with COCC, Project Ponderosa and musician Ian Carrick. It was put on in honor of Arbor Day, where people learned
Los Angeles Times—Opinion: Is planting trees on Arbor Day one way we can all fight climate change? Not so much. Arbor Day has its roots in the 1870s, when the horticulturist J. Sterling Morton spearheaded a movement to green Nebraska’s largely treeless plains. Since then, citizens, businesses and governments have marked April 26 by planting trees in schoolyards, parks and neighborhoods. In recent years, tree-planting has been touted as no less than a means of empowering people to combat climate change. Gratifying and photographable, planting a tree seems to be a small but tangible act that almost anyone...