Help Clarice Bean Save the Planet!
Ages 6 - 10

What Planet Are You From, Clarice Bean?
The spunky heroine created by Lauren Child (who has been called "Eloise . . . for the millennium") is learning all about Planet Earth in school. When her teacher, Mrs. Wilberton, assigns a project called The Environment, Clarice's creative mind leaps to all the possibilities: How about holes in the sky caused by her sister's hairspray? Or the nature safari right in her brother's bedroom? Then she learns that a big tree on her own street is about to be chopped to pieces! Of course she has no choice but to join her wacky family and sit up in the tree's branches, eat spaghetti, and save the day. 

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Activity Kit includes:
"What Can I Do to Help the Environment?" writing / coloring sheet
"Clarice Bean's 5 Favorite Ways to Save the Planet" activity suggestions

What are YOU doing to help the environment?
Follow Clarice Bean's lead and help give the cause of saving the planet a brand new spin! To get you started, our activity kit includes a special sheet for sharing your best eco-ideas as well as a 5-step eco-program that spells out "Clarice Bean's 5 Favorite Ways to Save the Planet."

Be Creative! Make an Eco-collage
Lauren Child, the author and illustrator of WHAT PLANET ARE YOU FROM, CLARICE BEAN?, won the Kate Greenaway Medal--the top prize in England--for her artwork. One thing that makes Lauren Child's art so great is that she mixes a variety of materials with her own drawings to create a collage on each page--for example, she makes leaves for a tree out of scraps of fabric, and posters for Clarice Bean's sister's room using real photographs. Create your own collage using recycled materials--pictures and words from old magazines or newspapers, scraps of fabric, pieces from cardboard food boxes, bits of shiny aluminum foil, even small objects that you can glue on, like old buttons or shoelaces. Once you start looking for things that you can recycle creatively, you'll start to see them everywhere!