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12 Recycled Crafts for Kids to Celebrate Earth Day
The most eco-friendly way we know how to celebrate Earth Day is with these kid-friendly crafts! To make one of these lovely crafts, you don’t need to purchase any additional supplies. Simple tools like scissors, glue, and paint enable children (and their grownups) to contribute to the preservation of the environment.
To gather materials for these enjoyable Earth Day activities for kids, clean out your recycling bin. There is a wealth of crafts supplies that are just ready to be recycled, ranging from glass and plastic to packaging and cardboard. These simple projects for kids offer some motivation to get you started, whether you want to transform a stack of cardboard boxes into something more elaborate or make totes out of T-shirts.
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1. Paper Roll Stampers
These homemade stamps, one of our favourite kid’s projects, are easy for preschoolers to hold onto. Watch as your child produces stunning abstract art. You may quickly form the paper roll into simple forms like hearts, squares, and triangles, or you can cut the rolls into exotic flowers by using a pair of scissors.
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2. No-Sew T-shirt Tote
This Earth Day action aims to reduce the projected 3.8 billion pounds of textile waste that fills up landfills all around the United States. Instead of throwing away those worn-out T-shirts, use some scissors to transform them into one of these practical totes. Perfect for lowering the usage of plastic bags, too!
3. Recycled Crayons
For youngsters of all ages, this STEAM activity is enjoyable. Gather all of the crayon stubs, remove the paper coverings, and then melt them to create fresh crayons. You can arrange your stubs according to colour or simply combine them together to make a custom blend.
4. Bubble Wrap Printing
Make a simple craft out of all that lovely bubble wrap instead of throwing it away. A delightful twist on conventional finger painting is provided by bubble wrap printing. Adding some blue and green paint will make this activity totally in style for Earth Day.
5. Egg Carton Flowers
The shape of egg cartons is readily transformed into a dozen red roses or a combination of daffodils and tulips with the use of scissors. Kids may easily make Egg Carton Flowers with a few simple materials. To make these lovely flower wreaths, we enjoy making a variety of flowers.
6. Plastic Bottle Flowers
Even though we make an effort to use fewer plastic bottles every day, I still end up with a sizable collection at the end of the month. Use your imagination to recycle some of your waste into a handful of these plastic bottle flowers. To decorate for Earth Day, you can make an entire chain of these distinctive flowers.
7. Cardboard Disc Sculptures
Find something better than this endlessly exploratory art activity—which is also free—I challenge you! Create cardboard disc sculptures by reusing the cardboard boxes in your recycling bin. This is ideal for kids who enjoy building over extended periods of time. Make these cardboard discs with nothing more than a cardboard box and a pair of scissors in place of spending money on expensive building toys from the store.
8. Recycled Paper Beads
Paper scraps are easy to come by in my home between schoolwork, periodicals, and junk mail, as well as craft projects and craft projects. Gather those bits to create these lovely recycled beads.
9. Tissue Box Feet
whether the tissue box or the shoe fits, that is. The ideal activity to spark hours of imaginative play is Tissue Box Feet. You only need a couple of tissue boxes to get started making the shoes for a monster, dinosaur, or other mythical creature.
10. Toilet Paper Roll Flower Art
It’s not simple to turn trash into wall art that you can hang, but this toilet paper roll flower wall art manages to achieve it. Tweens and teens will enjoy using a glue gun to craft detailed designs for this ideal “big kid” project.
11. Tin Can Planters
Create a magnificent herb garden on your windowsill by placing a few of these lovely tin can planters there. There are countless ways to adorn recycled tin cans, such with paint, washi tape, or even a layer of chalk paint.
12. Clothespin Trivets
We adore how this craft reuses used clothespins by transforming them into a practical kitchen trivet. For DIY-inclined home chefs, clothespin trivets are the ideal present.