4th and 5th Grade Recycled Crafts Educational Resources

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.

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!

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Many of the world's most important historical documents were written with quill pens.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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

Help your child create a piece of spring art by shaking up the traditional silhouette art form with a colorful collage background and vibrant spring color.

Rid your family of that pile of old Christmas cards once and for all! Show your child how to create a nifty 8-sided ornament using his favorite holiday images.

There's more to corn than the sweet yellow kernels. This easy craft project shows you and your kid how to make pretty corn husk flowers using just a few tools.

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!

Music is all around us. Bring some melody into your home with a hand-crafted door harp.

Cook up a batch of monster blood this Halloween to add gory details to vampires, zombies, werewolves and more.

Got a kid who loves fashion? Help her develop her own unique style with this tie-dye project using natural dyes.

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

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

Few architectural features are as recognizable as the Russian onion dome. In this project, your kid will recreate the striking beauty of this roof-top marvel.

Ask your fourth grader to jazz up the family kitchen by creating this adorable clothespin giraffe to sit on the counter and hold recipe cards.

Design and throw a boomerang in this exciting craft project!

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

This zombie shirt is a fun and incredibly simple Halloween costume. Have your kid don the shirt lurch around the neighborhood searching for brains...or candy!