Elementary School Recycled Crafts Activities

Help your child channel his inner wizard with this crafty activity perfect for imaginative youngsters.

Prepare for some scary Halloween counting practice! This game encourages players to knock down cylinders and then add to determine their scores.

Get into the Halloween spirit by creating creepy (but cute) spiders from paper egg cartons, paint, and pipe cleaners.

Recycle your cereal boxes and engage your child's creativity with this fun arts and crafts project.

Take a break with a paper bag costume. A great rainy-day art project.

Encourage a spirit of giving and sharing with this meaningful tzedakah box craft project. 

Music instruments can be expensive. Sidestep steep prices with this art project that uses recycled materials to create a melodious music maker!

Set your young chemist up for an afternoon of science-fueled magic with a deceptively simple activity starring baking soda and vinegar!

Transform a brown paper grocery bag into a hat in this arts and crafts activity!

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

Make Frankenstein bolts for your trick-or-treater this Halloween. These homemade Frankenstein bolts make your child look just like the popular monster.

Fly into some rainy day fun with a cardboard airplane project. Making paper airplanes is fun, but you can add a new twist by using recycled materials instead.

All you need to put together this guitar is an old shoebox. Soon your kid will be rocking out while saving room in the landfill.

Use these pretty egg carton flowers to decorate a spring table. They don't require water, they'll never wilt, and they're perfect for Easter.

Your child can re-purpose any used (and cleaned) can into a colorful container to hold Dad's pens and pencils on his desk!

Even your first grader can get involved in the lighting of the Kwanzaa Kinara with this clever flameless Kinara project!

Turn a boring lunch bag into a personalized suburban house. Your child will look forward to his lunch when he has the coolest bag house on the block!

This fun Christmas craft recycles paper bags to create personalized stockings by your kids to enjoy during the holidays.

Using an empty plastic bottle, your child can create a newfangled version of this African percussion instrument.

Many of the world's most important historical documents were written with quill pens. Have your kid make his own quill pen and put his penmanship to the test!

Bring some winter fun into your home while your child practices her number matching skills with this adorable snowman math game.

Being a kid is hard work. Soothe stresses and calm fears with this DIY Zen garden -- all you need is sand, stones and a shoebox.

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

Celebrate Earth Day, or any day, by recycling an old CD and make a colorful, decorative fish!

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Kids can put old magazines and unwanted clothing to good use by creating an Earth Day-themed multimedia collage in this eco-friendly arts and crafts activity.

Deck the halls with last season's Christmas lights for a spectacular and electrifying science activity.

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

Maracas are most commonly found in music around the world. Introduce your child to percussion and rhythm with this easy-to-make instrument.

Celebrate Earth Day by making colorful animal sculptures using recycled materials from around the house in this 3rd grade arts and crafts activity.