2nd - 4th Grade Recycled Crafts Educational Resources

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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

Would your child like to learn about a hidden world? All she needs to do is open her box of markers!

This Valentine's Day, pair up science and crafting with this simple crystal formation project that's sure to bring a little love into your home.

This dreidel craft gets your child to make the spinning top out of a milk carton. Make an upcycled dreidel craft with your child this Hanukkah.

In this colorful craft, make an enchanting star card for a birthday, holiday, or just for fun with construction paper and foam sheets!

Help your child use an old water bottle and a few other household materials to make her own eco-friendly pal!

This Fourth of July, create some explosive colors on black paper for fun Fourth of July decorations!

Re-purpose a tin can into a pretty compost bucket for your family's kitchen counter and learn about the science and fun of recycling and renewing objects.

Try this creative art project with your second grader to help him build up his fine motor skills and artistic awareness as he makes a faux stained glass vase.

What better way to raise awareness about the environment than with an eco-friendly Earth-themed party? Get your party started with this step-by-step guide.

Make unique and pretty bracelets using that all-purpose mainstay of crafts and home repair: duct tape!

Your child can re-use and re-purpose old seeds and paper into something new: decorated paper that can be planted!