10 Activities Using Recycled Materials

 10 Activities Using Recycled Materials

Here are 10 activities you can do with your children that use recycled materials. 

For the wellbeing of our environment and the way we live, recycling is crucial. Here are some amazing activities you can conduct at home with your kids to highlight the importance of recycling in a lighthearted and entertaining manner. 

1. Easy Apple Tree Craft 

Reading Confetti has developed a super easy craft that reuses all of those extra toilet rolls that are quick to accumulate. These small trees are very cute. 

2. Fun with Bubble Wrap and Paint

With this exercise, teaching two and three year olds is messy joy. 
Look it up! 

3. Homemade Lacing Shapes

Munchkin and Bean made wonderful threading cards from an old cardboard box. 
Simply educational and fun. 

4. Recycled Wax “Royal Gems” crayons

Sorting Sprinkles recycled used crayons to create new ones. How amazing do these seem? 


5. Juice Carton Boat

P is for Preschooler shows how simple it is to construct a boat out of a juice carton. 
What a wonderful educational thing for kids to undertake. 

6. Carpet Square Painting & Sensory Board

Carpet remnants are used by Crayon Box Chronicles for this enjoyable painting project. 
Who is to suggest that you must use paint brushes? 

7. Whale Milk Jug Kid’s Craft 

An excellent application for an empty milk bottle has been thought of by Sassy Dealz.
Utilising these in the bath or pool would be a lot of fun.

8. Bottle ‘Glass’ Sculptures


The life of Moore These amazing sculptures were created by babies using recycled plastic bottles! So artistic and lovely. 

9. Two Color Oil and Water Discovery Bottle

With this kid-friendly science experiment, Play Trains has you covered. 
Those enormous containers can be recycled in a fantastic way.

10. Creepy Crawly Craft

We learn how to recycle throwaway plates and make a fantastic Halloween craft from There’s Just One Mommy. 

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