Wow, this is the power of working together to love and protect our home!

According to House Beautiful – “Planting bee-friendly flowers is definitely an easy way to help keep our buzzing friends alive, and the sunflower is the perfect option for a summertime plant. They’re rich in nectar, and are the perfect color to attract bees—the flying insects actually can’t see reddish tinged colors, so sticking with yellow, blue, white, and purple flowers are especially helpful.

Sunflowers need optimal sunlight—around six to eight hours a day—and thrive when they grow in hot summer climates.”

Read more – https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/gardening/a27545572/save-the-bees-plant-sunflowers/

Walk barefoot on green grass! Wade in a stream! Hug a tree! Every single day – Celebrate Planet Earth! #celebrateplanetearth

It’s so important to join together and take the Planet Earth Pledge as a class, a club or a family. It helps remind us of what it means to love and protect the Earth. And here is a PDF poster so you can hang it on a bulletin board or wall.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/17/us/migrating-painted-lady-butterflies.html

What a wonderful article from the Sunday New York Times – 3/17/19! If the painted ladies are migrating into warm Southern California in record numbers than they will probably start arriving in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas as those states warm up. Seeing your first butterfly every spring is a great reason to celebrate Planet Earth!

Taking care of painted lady caterpillars is easy! Every package of caterpillars comes with a Life Cycle of the Painted Lady Butterfly and on the back of the poster are care instructions to help you and your students.

Also, here is an 8.5×11 PDF of Painted Lady Butterfly Care Instructions – everything you need to know from when the caterpillars arrive until the adult butterflies are ready to be released outside on a sunny day.

If you ever have questions, you are welcome to call us, M-F, at 800-698-4438.

Autumn Peltier is promoting the protection of sacred waters across the world. She is taking action to protect the Earth, our home. Learn more about Autumn at: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/canadian-nominee-childrens-peace-prize/

We are so proud of our mission and goals at Celebrate Planet Earth! Our aim is for millions of children to celebrate & protect the Earth every year through actions large & small. And our vision is to grow the next generation of heartfelt conservationists. Please join us by supporting children’s actions to love our home, the Earth!

Read more about our mission: About Celebrate Planet Earth

Avocados are in season right now. I’ve seen stacks of them at the grocery stores recently. Growing an avocado from a pit is very easy and makes a wonderful science experiment to share with your students.

Here’s a link to instructions:

https://www.californiaavocado.com/avocado101/your-own-avocado-tree

Every spring, the #1 favorite activity of our teachers is observing the transformation of live caterpillars into fabulous butterflies. Students are mesmerized! They love to learn about insect anatomy, pollination and, of course, metamorphosis, and they can see it with their own eyes.

We offer 3 different butterfly kits for your classroom:

• Caterpillar Cup
• Basic Butterfly Kit
• Butterflies & Sunflowers Kit

You are welcome to ORDER ONLINE at our website:
www.CelebratePlanetEarth.org

Or call CUSTOMER SERVICE with your questions:
1-800-698-4438
This spring we have expanded hours — 6am-6pm Mtn Time.