Early Childhood Recycled Crafts Educational Resources

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

This alphabet bottle is fun to make and a great activity to keep your child busy, while helping them recognize letters in a creative way.

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.

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

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.

Show your kindergartener how to craft a pretty Mother's Day jewelry box that's fit for the baubles of a queen (or at least an extra special mom)!

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

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

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

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

Help your little builder move up in the world with this recycled cardboard castle that's just the right size for a young king and his loyal stuffed subjects.

Your preschooler will strengthen his fine motor skills by cutting, painting, and drawing as he creates a crafty caterpillar out of an egg carton.

If your kid likes to color, you probably know all too well that crayons go quickly. Put those crayon stubs to use by creating colorful ironed wax paper art!

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.

Tap into your child's imagination while creating magic water bottles by filling a bottle with objects that they can search for and locate.

Maracas are most commonly found in music around the world. Introduce your child to percussion and rhythm with this easy-to-make instrument.

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

Show your preschooler how to construct this very special planter for Mom. It makes a great pick-me-up, and it's easy for kids to make in a flash!

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

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.

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!

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

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

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