3rd - 5th Grade Recycled Crafts Activities

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Many of the world's most important historical documents were written with quill pens.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

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!

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

Let your fourth grader contribute to your 4th of July picnic with this creative caddy craft project.

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

Celebrate the Presidents Day the creative way by constructing toilet paper tube figurines of a couple famous U.S. Presidents!

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

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

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

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

This Star of David craft is eco-friendly and will help your child practice basic geometry. Make a festive Star of David craft for Hanukkah.

Inspired by Charles Kaufman's crushed can art, this activity lets kids make their own unique works of art using, you guessed it, crushed cans and paint!

This homemade barometer allows your little scientist to contemplate and compare different air and weather conditions.

Recycle paper and old magazines with this art project that creates a great tool for artists: a color wheel!