Kindergarten - 2nd Grade Recycled Crafts Activities

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.

Recycle your cereal boxes and engage your child's creativity with this fun arts and crafts project.

Get into the Halloween spirit by creating creepy (but cute) spiders from paper egg cartons, paint, and pipe cleaners.

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.

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

Explore African culture by helping your child make his very own djembe drum! Help your child explore music and rhythm as he celebrates Black History Month.

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

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Kids can put old magazines and unwanted clothing to good use by creating an Earth Day-themed multimedia collage in this eco-friendly arts and crafts activity.

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

The 100th day of school is an important benchmark for kids in the lower elementary grades. Help your kid create a 100 days of school shirt to celebrate!

Give items that usually get tossed in the trash a second life with this green arts and crafts activity for kindergarteners. Make a milk carton train engine!

This Earth Day, create an adorable litter bug while learning about the importance of recycling.

In this arts and crafts activity, work with your preschooler to transform a cardboard box into a puppet theater and put on your own puppet drama.

Delight your child by helping them to construct a boat that can hold two seaworthy toy figures in this engaging project made from upcycled water bottles.

Make a roaring rocket ship toy out of a paper towel roll and some tissue paper.

Slip some science into storm watching with a homemade rain gauge!

Does your child still want to play in the snow, even after he has to come inside? In this activity you'll build a snowman indoors!

Make a candy wrapper collage with your leftover candy wrappers! This candy wrapper collage is a cool, upcycled post-Halloween craft project.

Playhouses can be expensive, and they take up so much space. Why not make your own collapsible playhouse instead?

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!

Introduce your little one to the joys of gardening with this adorable do-it-yourself planter made from clothespins.

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

This children's menorah is a fun craft that lets your child celebrate Hanukkah while learning their ABCs. Make this children's menorah for the Festival of Lights.

Teach your child the meaning of recycle and reuse by repurposing plastic spoons as plant markers for your vegetable garden.

Bring some winter fun into your home while your child practices her number matching skills with this adorable snowman math game.

Looking for a last minute gift? This homemade candle holder is a breeze to make, and its pretty glow really brightens up a room. A great 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.

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.