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.

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

This Haggadah scroll activity is great for getting kids to practice handwriting, but it will also get them thinking about the meaning behind Passover.

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

Many of the world's most important historical documents were written with quill pens.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!

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

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

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

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

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

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

This little bumble bee is the perfect springtime party table decoration and is great practice for pattern-making, folding and cutting.

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!

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

Your child can now recreate history by building his very own fortified castle.

Design and throw a boomerang in this exciting craft project!

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. 

Have your kid create DIY abstract art Easter decorations worthy of a spot at the Smithsonian!

Is your child a nature nut with an eye for creative, green-friendly projects? Introduce them to this amazing DIY bird feeder!

Make this paper mache gargoyle for a lesson in Medieval architecture and sculpture.

Your kid will delight in creating an extraterrestrial vehicle from goods found around the house. There's no telling where her imagination will go!

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.

Is it a bird? Is it Superman? No, it's your third grader's homemade miniature plane zooming across the room on a zip line.

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

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

This project can help prepare your child for a trip to the tide pools, or give him a way to remember some of the many creatures he saw during his visit.