Elementary School Recycled Crafts Educational Resources

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.

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

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.

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

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

Deck the halls with last season's Christmas lights for a spectacular and electrifying science activity.

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

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?

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

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.