Kids Room Trash Can
By: Caley Walsh, Editor, FaveCrafts.com
Recycled crafts for kids can be a valuable tool of entertainment and distraction after a long school day. These crafts cost almost nothing to make and you can use materials from around the house, like oatmeal containers, toilet paper rolls, aluminum cans, and more!.
If you're looking for recycling projects for kids that are perfect for Earth Day, this is a must-have collection. Save up those drink cartons, plastic bottles, and even paper plates; you can use all of these items for these projects.
Even if Earth Day is nowhere in sight, save this collection for a rainy day and have kids get creative on a gloomy afternoon. If you're a teacher, you'll find great school projects made from recycled materials below as well. Kids will love making their own games, organizers, and even birdfeeders.
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Mason Jar Crafts for Kids
Start with a classic material! Use jars that pasta sauce came in or you can even splurge and pick up a few Ball jars from the local craft store. These adorable projects are too cute to pass up!
Tin Can Crafts for Kids
With the tutorials below, you and the kids can make all sorts of exciting projects from cans. Create a funny cow, pig or bear using empty soda cans, paint and felt. Recycle crafts for kids are a great tool for teaching kids about recycling. Find more recycled can crafts below.
Soup Can Bowling
This Soup Can Bowling craft is a two-for-one project: kids can spend time making this craft, and then they get to use it as a fun activity!
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Aluminum Can Crafts
As with most of the aluminum can crafts below, you'll want to help your kids and supervise since these projects all involve shaping or cutting aluminum cans.
Soda Can Coasters
Set your can of pop on some soda can coasters! If Pepsi is your favorite, there's nothing like having some Pepsi coasters at the ready.
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Sparkle Fairies
Aren't these fairies just the prettiest projects? Make sure you assist your child with this tutorial as it does involve cutting up the cans, but the finished results are so lovely.
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Whether it's raining, snowing, or just a few days off from school, these extra recycled crafts will help keep kids and adults alike occupied and entertained for hours. Get the collection: 1000+ Recycled Crafts
Drink Carton Crafts
You'll find great tutorials below using drinking cartons. For example, make your own bird feeder or gift box using this useful material!
Drink Carton Gift Box
The Drink Carton Gift Box is an easy craft project that's an extra special way to dress up a gift. Giving a handmade gift in a handmade box makes the present doubly special!
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Toilet Paper Roll Crafts for Kids
Toilet Tube Tea Cups
China can be expensive, but with this tutorial your little one can make teacups for pennies! This is the most darling project for tea parties with the teddy bears.
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More Crafts with Cardboard
It's seriously amazing what you can make out of recycled containers. So long as you properly clean the inside of grease, decorate the outside and store anything you like inside. Did you know you can make art out of pizza boxes? At a glance, it's impossible to tell that the lovely artwork came from a pizza box! Scrap paper, CDs, and more make for a fabulous project.
Pizza Box Art
This project is a double recycling whammy! Not only will kids upcycle a pizza box to make this project, but they'll use CDs to make the image for their artwork.
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Pringles Can Storage Container
Those tall potato chip cans are a treasure trove for craft ideas! The Pringles Can Storage Container is ideal for storing pens, scissors, coloring supplies, and all manner of tools. Anything you might use a tube for is ideal for this craft.
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Cardboard Ribbon Spool Flowers
Don't toss those empty ribbon spools! These colorful flowers are great for those who love vibrant wall art. Perfect for a kids playroom or nursery, these 3D style flowers are made with empty ribbon spools and a variety of paint colors. Kids can help create these flowers under the supervision of an adult, and they'll love that they helped create and decorate something in their room.
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Quick Recycled Gift Container
If you need a container and you need it quick, this easy project is great fo rthe kids to work on! It just takes a few basic materials to have a new storage solution at your fingertips.
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Recycled Diy Planters
These planters are made from yogurt containers! Learn how you can dress them up. Your kids will love making the containers and growing the flowers inside them!
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Pizza Box Wall Art
Kids of all ages will love this project. All you need is an empty pizza box and a bunch of little nick nacks and you've got all you need to create this fun wall decoration. You could also use a flat top box instead of a pizza box or the box from a frozen pizza. So order up a slice of pie and get ready for some great family craft time.
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Upcycled Containers
Great for storing craft supplies, pens and pencils, makeup, hair accessories, toy cars and so much more, these Upcycled Containers are a great way to use up leftover paper and canisters that you have lying around. Great suggestions for upcycled containers are coffee jugs, oatmeal containers, large tin cans, and even empty paint cans.
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Here you'll find projects that look great and help the planet at the same time. There's never a bad time to use recycled materials, so dip into your discards and gather up supplies. You won't believe how much you can make with so few supplies. View the collection: 70+ Ways to Reuse Materials for Crafting
Plastic Bottle Crafts
You can make all sorts of things out of water bottles. Recycle water bottles into pink flower bracelets for fun green crafting ideas for kids. Find more ideas below.
Plastic Bottle Birdfeeder
You can make this darling Plastic Bottle Birdfeeder! At a glance you don't even realize it was once a plastic bottle. The little roof is so darling and really makes the project look like a little house! This is a wonderful project to do with the kids and they will love seeing the birds use it.
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Bottle Cap Bugs
Use plastic bottle caps, cereal boxes, wire, and more to create this adorable Bottle Cap Bug. Kids will love getting their hands dirty making a collection of these cute bug projects, and you can easily display them both indoors and out. These fun green crafts for kids would look great in an outdoor garden display or could be used to decorate inside as well.
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Robbie the Recycled Robot
This recycle friendly robot is a great way to teach kids about the benefits of recycling. Crafted from aluminum foil and other kid-friendly supplies, this easy to make robot would be a great project for Earth Day or a fun way to clean out your craft box.
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More Plastic Crafts
You can craft with the most obscure plastic containers. Find more recycled crafts below made from various plastic containers, such as CD cases, bottle caps, and more.
Recycled Tic Tac Toe Game
Kids and adults of all ages will love this fun verison of tic-tac toe! Made with an old cereal box and plastic water bottle caps, this easy travel game is great for taking in the car or on a trip to grandma's house. The little game pieces also contain magnets, so you don't have to worry about misplacing game pieces as you travel.
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Eco Froggy Bank
This Eco Froggy Bank is made from a disposable cup like one you'd order a smoothie in. The hold in the top comes in handy for crafting your own bank!
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Fuzzy Bumble Bee
Hurry to the store to stock up on pom poms because you'll need them for this project. It's easy to transform a bottle of barbeque sauce into anything you'd like when you cover it with pom poms!
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Paper Plate Crafts for Kids
You can craft with paper plates and other paper dishware. For example turn a paper bowl into a turtle! You'll save your trash can from filling up and your kids will get a chance to make a recycled reptile.
Owl Paper Cup
A couple paper cups and a few basic crafting supplies are all you need to make this owl. This is a great project for little ones!
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Ladybug Paper Plate
Too cute! All you need are some paper plates and other supplies you likely already have on hand, such as buttons and paint, to make this ladybug.
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Paper Plate Gratitude Flowers
Use plain paper plates and some cute buttons to create these adorable Graditude Flowers. This green crafting project is great for arts and crafts time at school, and kids can write what they're thankful for on the flower and display them in the front lawn. These colorful springtime flowers are a great way to teach kids about the importance of saving the Earth and remaining thankful for all our blessings the whole year through.
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Cute Paper Bowl Turtle
If turtles are your child's favorite animal, be sure to make this adorable project with them! It only requires a few easy steps, making this a great rainy day project.
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Spring Crafts for Kids: Cute Bunny
Don't just craft with paper plates: make an entire darling scene featuring a bunny in a field of daisies! Tissue paper and cotton balls are a few of the basic materials you'll need to make this art.
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Pig Paper Plate
Paper plate crafts are great recycling projects for school, and this Pig Paper Plate uses multiple recycled items! Learn how to make darling animal faces out of paper plates with this tutorial.
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More Recycling Crafts for Kids
We have more miscellaneous recycled crafts below. For example, use old newspaper to create big, circular beads. Kids will love painting and decorating recycled paper beads.
Beautiful Paper Beads
Use magazine paper to make your own paper beads! This project is easier than you think and you can make gorgeous jewelry with items you'd normally toss in the recycling bin!
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Fun Altered Dominoes
Do you have a set of dominoes that are useless because a few of them are missing? Use them to make adorable altered artwork with this project.
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DIY Painted Jugs and Spring Flowers
Paint milk jugs for the most darling spring vases! These are some of the cutest recycled crafts and they are just so simple. Coordinating colors will make these milk jugs your new favorite centerpieces!
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Upcycled Glove Animals
These Upcycled Glove Animals are also SO adorable, it's hard to pass them up! I love the dinosaurs. These are an absolutely adorable recycling projects for kids, and it's a fun project to make when you've lost a glove and don't know what to do with the other one!
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Brown Bag Handle Bracelet
Girls of all ages will love showing off their stylish side with these fun and easy recycled brown paper bag bracelets. These colorful fashion staples are made using the handles from plastic grocery bags, so you can easily make them fit wrists of all shapes and sizes. Let your girls decorate their own bracelets and teach them how to create fashionable accessories that they'll love to show off to their friends!
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Source: https://www.favecrafts.com/Earth-Day-Crafts/16-Recycle-Crafts-for-Kids
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