Kindergarten - 3rd Grade Recycled Crafts Educational Resources

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.

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.

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

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

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

Transform a paper coffee cup into an adorable Easter bunny gift basket in this second grade arts and crafts activity.

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.

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

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

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

Music instruments can be expensive. Sidestep steep prices with this art project that uses recycled materials to create a melodious music maker!

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

Your child will make her mark on the world with unique homemade ink stamps.

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

Your first grader will enjoy creating his own leprechaun from a recycled toilet paper tube.

Using nothing fancier than old milk cartons and popsicle sticks, create a village full of fun learning for your kindergarten math student.

Celebrate the coming of Spring and Earth Day with this 3-D art project that makes use of recycled materials.

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.

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.

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.

Try a little eco-friendly crafting this Easter: turn lonely, misfit socks into bunny sculptures in this recycled arts and crafts activity.

Let your child set her artistic talent free with an easy, environmentally-friendly bottle cap mosaic.

Want to build some homemade instruments? These maracas make a racket, and they couldn't be easier to make...

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.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

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