What Are Some Fun Games/Crafts/Activities To Teach Children About Protecting The Environment And Recycling?

For Children between the ages of 6 and 12 preferably… anything from games, to making stuff from recyclable materials and other such activities… Any ideas/links would be much appreciated!

my 7 year old has to make something from recycled materials for a craft fair?

she can use bottles, bags, boxes etc. any ideas on what we can make

Arts & Crafts Project! Super Easy. Ideas?

Hey guys so this is my problem. I need to do this project that is due this friday. The project is that we need to get a cereal box & decorate it. ( like our own cereal ) I already bought materials and stuff. ( I’m planing on doing the cereal.box recycling-ishh type. )The materials [...]

I need craft ideas for used store shopping cards. (like wal-mart and target) HELP!!?

I have a load of used shopping cards (plastic credit card type) and would like to do a craft with them for my girl scout troop. If you have any ideas or know of where I can get some please hlep. I would like to recycle them into something more useful or at least something [...]

Any ideas for a recycling project?

I have to do a project by making some kind of model with recycling objects. I suck at arts and craft so can u think of any things that are easy to make with recycled things?

magazine recycling ideas?

I have a ton of magazines that I get in the mail and from friends, and I hate to throw them all away. I have seen ideas about using them for crafts, but my son isn’t old enough to do stuff like that and I’m not really the creative sort. I have also heard about [...]

What to do with empty gift cards?

We have a TON of Visa gift cards that are all used and have $0 balances. I noticed this year that the cashiers everywhere have been very eager to take our empty gift cards; what are they doing with them? Is there a recycling program? Any creative craft ideas for these things?

Project / craft ideas for beer bottle tops?

My daughter has collected over 6,000 bottle caps. Originally, the purpose was to recycle. She was told that she could turn them in for cash. Well, we never found out all the details and they’re just sitting here. Does anyone know of some cool, cute crafts or projects to create with these. And if anyone [...]

El. Ed. Teachers: Ideas for reusing/recycling the little plastic K-cups from the Keurig coffee maker?

The K-cups don’t have a number on them, so I don’t know if they can be recycled. But we thought that maybe a local school could use them for kids’ arts and crafts projects. Any ideas of what the kids could do with them??? In case you haven’t seen K-cups… they are little lightweight plastic [...]

What to do with plastic placemats?

I got about 300 plastic placemats from a friend who makes them. He said I can hand them out to my students but I still have so many left over. Any ideas about any nifty ideas of what to do with them? Craft ideas? They can’t be recycled and I’ve handed out so many already [...]

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