12 ACTIVITIES USING UPCYCLED MATERIALS

Are you trying to think of original ways to teach your kids about upcycling? It is not necessary to discard everything. Kids may learn how to repurpose or upcycle objects that might otherwise be thrown away by participating in one of these environmentally friendly Earth Day activities.

1. Use paper-mâché to make pots.

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Adorn the bottom of beverage bottles or recycled food containers with bits of colourful paper. With the exception of the glue, these paper mâché planters are completely composed of recyclable materials.

2. Make chair fidgets out of old tees.

Repurpose old T-shirts to create chair fidgets that will make them feel like new again. This is done using a basic braiding technique that your kids will love helping you with.

3. Settle in a recycling bin made of aluminum cans.

Kids can work together to construct a facility for recycling aluminium cans. For further instructions on how to use Recycle Rally to help your kids recycle more happily and profitably, watch the video above.

4. Make fairy dwellings.

These Earth Day creations are, I think, the cutest things you’ve ever seen. Simple plastic bottles can be made into fairy houses with paint, cutters, glue, and artificial or real foliage.

5. Make a large-scale, upcycled art wall.

This repurposed wall artwork is amazing. Blogger Art Bar has excellent motivation. Place it on a board backing and let the students use it for free time during the day to create, paint on it, and add to it.

6. Make your games.

You may use bottle caps to play tic-tac-toe. Checkers can also be made with them. This is a fantastic project for a maker space. Give your kids some repurposed materials and set out to create games with them!

7. Transform old magazines into artistic pieces.

We like how primary school kids can use this recycled magazine cut-paper art activity, or how high school students can be inspired to create more intricate works of art.

8. Build beautiful terrariums.

A bottle is turned into a terrarium fit for a museum and the dwelling for an environmental research experiment. Add some moss and activated carbon to your plastic bottle terrariums for thriving plants.

9. Set up an automatic planter that waters itself.

This practical project to build a self-watering planter can enhance your plant life, photosynthesis, and water conservation lessons in the classroom. What forms the basis? As demonstrated in this Recycle Rally film, a classic large plastic bottle.

10. Make flowers out of cut water bottles.

With a little paint and your recycling bin, you can make some easy crafts like water bottle flowers created from recycled bottles.

11. Give a hoot about these newspaper owls.

When old newspapers are recycled into newspaper owls, they discover their spirit animal. You’ll need markers, watercolours, and paper to make them come to life.

12. Make a plastic bottle recycling can.

This water bottle recycling centre is made possible by water bottles and your kids. This project combines environmental care with teamwork to create a win-win situation.