Recycled Crafts for Kids to Encourage Reuse

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If you need an easy kids’ craft idea with great results, this egg carton art is fun and sure to please. This recycled canvas art can be customized for any holiday or decor like this poinsettia canvas craft for Christmas!

Celebrate the start of spring with this flower craft! Design your own flowers or use the free template provided.

Use a half dozen egg carton and felt to make a super cute toy camera. It is complete with neck strap and lens!

Oh my word this is adorable! Older kids can make this cute horse craft, or younger ones can make it with a bit of adult help.

Learn how to make DIY magnets with bottle caps! You probably have the supplies in your home already. Easy for both kids and adults.

Turn plastic bottle caps into crabs playing on the beach! You'll need a paper plate, paint, pipe cleaners, and wiggle eyes.

This is one of the easiest and most fun crafts to make with a bottle cap! Try a unique necklace. Older kids love this project, and it's also fun to top it with Dimensional Magic.

Create fun patterned paper to wrap around tin cans. Turn them into pineapple planters by adding a plant to the can. Great Mother's Day gift idea!

Make these cute duct tape cats for a fun Halloween crafts! They’re black and spooky but you can use any tape colors you like for this idea. It’s very easy and fun to make for any age!

Collect a few soda can tabs to make this fun necklace craft. I love the gemstones, don't you?

This owl craft not only uses a tin can, but the eyes were made using different size bottle caps! Use it to hold pencils as shown, or to hold your favorite small toys.

Make these cute and easy GIANT DIY greeting cards! Yup. These are the extremely large cousins of your typical grocery store cards. Aren’t they a hoot?

Look how cute this hedgehog is! I love the use of flowers to dress up the body.

Don’t spend big bucks on a dollhouse – this cardboard dollhouse craft is really easy! Use Mod Podge to create this with your children.

Have kids make this cereal box turkey to list the things they are grateful for this Thanksgiving. Then you can use it as a cute centerpiece!

It’s so easy to make these paint chip bookmarks that look like spring tulips or cats. Kids will love this craft, and if you have old paint chips . . . it’s free!

Don't throw away that used wrapping paper! Use it to make these fun crowns that kids will love wearing.

Learn how to make paper beads the easy way, with Mod Podge! Great for jewelry making.

Watercolor paints and newspaper come together to make this hot air balloon art! Kids will have tons of fun dripping the watercolors on the paper.

These cardboard tube binoculars are a great rainy day craft for kids. They can use them to go bird watching, as a camp craft, or as a nature inspired project!

The dangling arms and legs are perfect on this toilet tube monkey! I also love that he is winking at me.

If you’re looking for recycled holiday projects, this Christmas tree craft using recycled toilet paper rolls is so fun! Kids will love it.

Use a tube and some crepe paper to make the cutest craft ever: mini piñatas. You’ll love finding out what’s inside this toilet paper roll mummy!

Learn how to make wine cork reindeer, a cute Christmas craft for both kids or adults! Turn them into ornaments, place cards, decor, or gift toppers. So easy!

Instead of purchasing stamps at the store, save a couple of bucks and make your own from wine corks. It’s VERY easy. There’s a video in this post to learn how to make these wine cork stamps, after you go through the tutorial!

Learn how to make the cutest wine cork pumpkins for fall decorating! This cork pumpkin craft is easy enough for beginning crafters. The whole family will enjoy this autumn decor project, and it’s done in three easy steps.

Use up that garbage instead of adding to the landfill, and make your very own shrink charms to create colorful jewelry, bags or backpacks, and keychains!

Make a fun water bottle piggy bank that lets you see all of the money you've saved! This will make saving money fun for kids.

I never realized that plastic bottles could be so pretty! This plastic bottle wind spiral mobile is perfect for hanging out in the garden and watching spin as the wind catches it.

These recycled plastic bottle planters are so adorable! Self watering planters make great earth day crafts; these planters are the perfect size for a cactus or succulent.