Recycling Activities and Crafts

Make a Recycled Valentine’s Day Card!

Make one-of-a-kind Valentine's Day cards using magazines and old greeting cards.
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Make Your Own Valentine Notepad!

Make a heart-shaped notepad out of used paper!
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Create a Trash Art Masterpiece!

Using colorful, clean trash items that cannot be recycled, make a wall mural. Consider a theme like a rainbow, a garden, undersea landscape, etc. and help children identify colors, textures, patterns.
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Make Your Own Recycled Toy House!

Use a shoebox and paper towel roll to make your own toy house.
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Make Your Own Lawn Bowling Set

A great idea for reusing soda bottles and leftover decorations from birthday and holiday parties.
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Make a Recycled Wind Sock!

Your whole family can enjoy the summer breeze with this homemade, recycled wind sock!
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Make a Recycled Game of Catch!

Use old laundry detergent bottles or milk jugs to make fun catching mitts.
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Get Organized with Reused Jars!

Reuse emptied sauce and jelly jars to hold your little toys, game pieces and coins.
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Make your own rainstick!

The rainstick is a musical instrument played in the belief that it could bring about rainstorms.
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Create Your Own Magazine or Book Holder!

Don't throw away your kids' old cereal boxes and art projects from school—turn them into attractive magazine and book holders for their rooms!
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Make Egg Carton Pumpkins!

Use old egg cartons to make miniature jack-o-lanterns.
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Make a recycled desk or locker set

Use old metal cans or glass jars to make holders for your school stuff.
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Make your own recycled crayons!

You can reuse your old,broken crayons to create your own colorful, one-of-a-kind crayons!
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Make your own one-of-a-kind envelopes!

Make one-of-a-kind, colorful envelopes from paper you already have at home.
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Make your Own Paper Beads

Create one-of-a-kind beads using holiday gift wrap scraps and your family's old magazines and catalogs!
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Make a Milk Jug Mask!

Celebrate Halloween by making a mask out of recycled materials!
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Make a Recycle Monster!

These monsters are hungry for everything you recycle—old pop cans, paper, milk jugs, newspaper and much more!
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Make a Green-Haired Kid!

Make your own Green-Haired Kid by reusing materials you have around the house.
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Make your own recycled paper!

Do you have construction paper scraps that you don't know what to do with?
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