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Instilling true values at an early age of children's life, including learning, acquiring knowledge and encouraging participation , is considered the key for afterwards change on developing the children's abilities and skills to avoid bad habits and wrong behaviors insofar as the environment is concerned .It also helps finding models, to rely on, in following an environmental method with clear insight .The kindergarten , in this concern , has an important role in instilling ways and methods which enable children 's participation. Such participation is held important in both the children's life and their future change. In order to help children understand environmental concepts and form suitable behaviors insofar as the environment is concerned, they should have their own experience depending on an environmental program. This program is held on the bases of certain behaviors which are important for the kindergarten children's development. The present paper aims at having an idea about the effect of a suggested program on developing the environmental skills for kindergarten children .To achieve this aim , the researcher derived the following zero hypotheses: 1) There are no differences in statistics at level 0,05 of the environmental skills between the experimental group children and the control group children in pretest. 2) There are no differences in statistics at level 0,05 of the environmental skills between the experimental group children and the control group children in posttest. 3) There are no differences in statistics at level 0,05 0f the environmental skills for children of the experimental group both in the first and second posttests. The study sample consisted of 63 children (male & female) at the kindergarten primary stage for the academic year 2013-2014. The members of the sample were distributed to two groups: the experimental which was of 33 children (male & female) and the control group which was of 30 children (male & female). The children's parents of each group had the same academic qualifications. The result were as such : There are no differences between the two kindergarten children groups (experimental & control) in the pretest of the environmental skills .While the results showed that there are differences for the benefit of the experimental group after applying the suggested program. Also, the results showed that there are no differences between the first and second pretests. (Published Abstract)