Has anyone ever done a craft project with recycled materials? My kindergartner needs to do one?
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I remember doing one with my nephew.
We constructed a “robot”. We got an old yogurt container (head), old shoe box (body), used plastic cups (hands and legs). We covered the body with cut out pieces of a paper bag and colored. Hope this helps.
What about a drum made out of a coffee can & decorated.
Hiya!
We used to make crafts all the time (birdhouse out of milk cartons and such). You can find several projects using recycled materials
here: http://www.kinderart.com/recycle/
and here: http://www.makingfriends.com/recycle.htm
Hope that helps! Have fun!
take an old 2 liter pesi bottle and turn it into a bird feeder. you just cut the whole for the feeding spot and fill it with feed and hang it from a tree. decorate as nessesary
Do you know how to make recycled paper? Kind of an involved process, but fun.
http://www.loneprairie.net/art_projects/recycled_papermaking.pdf
What about tearing paper or magazines & making a mosaic?
I used to make a guitar like instrument using empty tissue boxese and rubberbands. i would plae the rubber bands across the hole of the box. But preferably use different sizes and thickness of rubber bands for different kinds of sounds.
Our little ones do one each year. If this is your first the most funis a popaicle stick project. Get a box of popsicles and let them eat them then let them either glue them together.
Better yet plant a few Watermelon seeds because they come up fastest then let them use the popsicle sticks for a brace.
Another project which is fun and easy is an egg carton caterpillar.
Also my granddaughter likes to make bird feeders out of milk cartons you need a plastic gallon cut a semi circle low but leave the bottom half of the circle attached and then you can put seeds in witho out spilling we have several of them. If you need more ideas let me know we do this kind of stuff to keep them entertained. Lori
You could make denim paper out of old bluejeans: http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/cr_accessories_jewelry/article/0,1789,HGTV_3225_2740191,00.html
We’ve taken soup cans and an old wooden lazy susan, screwed the cans to the wood then decorated them. You can use it for plastic silverware, pencils or even a gift for the teacher.
Take an empty tuna can or vegetable can. With a plier, an adult should pinch or press down the metal just inside the top rim so he doesn’t get cut.
He can glue pretty paper or fabric to the can, and it makes a pencil holder, or small holder for coins or paper clips.
You’ll find quite a few ideas at this site.
http://www.allfreecrafts.com/recycling-crafts/index.shtml
Take shredded paper, add some colored shredded paper, soak it in water, add wild flower seeds. Take the goop and smash it into cookie cutters so that it is somewhat thin. Or you can do a big sheet and cut into shapes later. Dry under a fan (if you let it just dry the flowers will sprout before it is dry) and then you can actually plant them and the flowers will grow. You could also leave the seeds out and just make paper. A good way to dry them is to stretch panty hose over hangers bent into circles so that air comes from the top and bottom. Hope that makes sense. We did the flowers for wedding pary favors. And I made paper with my preschool class. Both were big hits.
Missy