Fun Recycled Crafts

Getting kids involved in recycling can be fun, through fun crafts kids can learn what can be done with everyday household items. So instead of throwing out bottle caps, or egg cartons reuse them at home or in the classroom. Here are a few ideas of what you can do.

Bottle Cap Art

Save up your bottle caps and paper iHeart crafty things has a couple of ideas for bottle caps including a little bottle cap aquarium with lots of little fish and fun colors. Toward the bottom, they also show bottle cap flowers that you can also make. Projects like this can be used as a mothers day or fathers day gift or as a little homemade gift for other family members. A lot of parents and grandparents would prefer something homemade rather than store-bought.

Bird Feeders

By using things like recycled milk jugs, water bottles, toilet paper rolls, etc. you and your child can create a bird feeder for the yard. On top of taking this time to discuss recycling various plastics and paper, it also allows learning a little bit about birds and other wildlife. The Resourceful Mama has instructions for making feeders out of empty toilet paper rolls. Also, check out the Audubon society for other ways to make feeders out of recycled products.

Egg Carton Dragonfly

This craft is super fun and colorful, really letting kids bring out their creative side by painting with their favorite colors, attacking antenna and eyes to give their dragonfly its own personality. Crafty Morning gives you all of the information needed to create these fun creatures.

Lid Banjos

Using different sizes of rubber bands and lids not only can you take the opportunity to teach kids about recycling but this can also turn into a little music lesson as well The Craft Train has this as well as other fun crafting ideas.

All of the websites listed in the articles also have tons of other fun crafting ideas for kids and adults alike. As much as recycling is important the idea of reusing is just as important this gives everyone ideas on how to reuse everyday items they would standardly just throw away.