Preschool - 1st Grade Recycled Crafts Educational Resources

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.

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

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.

Transform paper towel tubes into some great binoculars for imaginary playtime!

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

Reuse and recycle your CDs by having your kid turn them into colorful, eye-popping suncatchers.

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.

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

Celebrate Earth Day with a decorative tree made out of strictly reused and recycled materials.

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

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

Building a rocket ship is a great way for kids to learn about measuring and construction. It'll fuel their creative side too!

There's no need to buy musical instruments when you can make your own castanets in less time than it takes to click your way through a percussive song.

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

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

Preschoolers can ply their creativity making recycled egg carton masks in this clever eco-friendly arts and crafts activity.

This fun, think-outside-the-box activity introduces kids to gravity and other basic scientific concepts as they construct an impressive marble run!

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

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

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

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

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

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.

Instead of painting a picture of a whale, let your preschooler make their own whale toy using a paper bag and some recycled art supplies.

Make homemade potpourri out of roses with your child!

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

Tin can phones offer something modern versions don't—a fun project to make with a friend, and a dramatic illustration of vibration and sound waves.

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.

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