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5 Recycling Projects for Kids
With the help of these crafts, teach your children the importance of recycling.
It’s the ideal time to teach your children about recycling through some enjoyable and simple DIY recycling projects because so many of us are confined to our homes owing to coronavirus quarantine restrictions.
Recycling projects for kids actually provide the best of both worlds because they may double as educational opportunities as well as enjoyable family bonding activities. The earlier you can teach your children the importance of recycling for the environment and for their futures, the better.
And since teaching kids the value of recycling shouldn’t ever be dull, the ideal way to do it is through kid-friendly DIY projects that are entertaining, interesting, and simple enough for little hands.
Prepared to start creating? For five kid-friendly recycling crafts, keep reading!
DIY Key Wind Chime
A DIY wind chime is one of the most popular recycling projects that adults look for online. There are so many “correct” ways to create a wind chime, but if you have old, unused keys stashed away in a drawer somewhere, we especially appreciate this concept.
Twine, several keys, paint, and a medium-sized tree limb that can support the weight of the wind chime are among the supplies listed by Inner Child Fun.
Assist your children in painting the branch and then the keys in various hues. Put the string between each key and the branch when the paint has dried. To hang the branch from a tree or your patio, where you plan to hang the homemade key wind chime, you’ll need one more longer piece of twine once all the keys have been connected to it.
Recycled Egg Carton Mermaids
These recycled egg carton mermaids can be brought to life like magic with only a recycled egg carton, a little paper tube, a hot glue gun, twine, scissors, and some paint.
Adapted from Art Camp LA, your mermaids can become a garland, a mobile, or you can simply hang them from the walls or ceiling to add some adorable decorations to your child’s bedroom.
Repurposed Candle Jars
Did the bottom of your candle burn out? Okay, but don’t throw away that glass jar! An old glass candle jar can be utilised in a plethora of ways, especially for storage in a pantry closet or a desk. Kids will enjoy helping you arrange various items into the jars as you use this candle jar upcycling tip from Instrupix, even though removing the leftover candle wax and wick could be a task best left to adults. This recycling project is also an excellent lesson in sorting and categorising like products, whether you use it to house rubber bands, Q-tips, or other office supplies, or nuts or other snacks that you buy in bulk.
Recycled Soda Bottle Planters
Make planters out of the soda bottle bottoms to introduce your child to upcycling instead of recycling used, single-use plastic soda bottles. You’ll need paint, scissors, a ruler, a Sharpie, and possibly some adhesive remover to get rid of part of the goo off the label for this idea, which comes from Craving Some Creativity.
Help your budding DIYer cut the plastic bottles into the desired form; frogs, bunnies, and pigs are just a few examples of the inspiration offered by Craving Some Creativity. Then, allow your youngster to go wild by painting and/or adding faces with a Sharpie after the paint has dried.
Once everything is ready, plant your choice of succulent or other plant and add potting soil.
Egg Carton Ocean Craft
Use this recycled egg carton craft idea from The Imagination Tree to create an ocean diorama. To create coral, fish, and other sea life, you can use any creative supplies you have on hand, including foam, gems, glitter, paint, paper, and markers. For a more realistic aquatic picture, you may also hot glue some shells, rocks, sea glass, and pebbles you’ve collected from the shore to your ocean egg carton.
This piece is a component of Green Matters’ 2020 Earth Day campaign, #HomeSweetEarth, which aims to remind readers that, despite our busy lives, we all share one home: planet Earth. We hope that this week’s stories will encourage you to respect and honour the Earth both during the pandemic and after.