2nd - 5th Grade Recycled Crafts Activities

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

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.

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.

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.

Show your fourth grader how to embrace a green lifestyle and enjoy the outdoors with a homemade, recycled picnic basket.

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

Making these fabulous cupcake liner flowers is a great way to introduce your child to relief artwork and patterns.

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

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

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

This easy paper craft looks like the ancient Moai sculptures of Easter Island.

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

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

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

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.

Design and throw a boomerang in this exciting craft project!

There's no better way to show mom you love her than with the tried and true breakfast in bed routine. Make whole wheat waffles along with a vase just for mom.

Transform ordinary metal paper clips into wearable jewelry by adding beads and linking the clips together.

Instead of buying new sunglasses this summer, why not use recycled materials to make some of your own?

Who says you have to buy your toys at the toy store? In this activity, you can plan and build a pretend play city entirely out of recycled materials.

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!

Turn all those broken bits of plates, random buttons, or other odds and ends into a lovely flower pot for Mom on Mother's Day.

Ever wonder how those kooky kazoos work? Get to know the science behind this silly instrument by making your very own kazoo!

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

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

Turn an empty cereal box into a teacher appreciation card in this eco-friendly craft project! 

Breathe new life into a battered old paperback with this creative book art craft that revolves around reading!

Use an old strawberry basket to create a decorative box for storing knickknacks, jewelry or odds and ends with this recycled craft.

Outfit a pair of dark sunglasses with sneaky mirrors for eyes in the back of your head.