In the long run, teaching your children to recycle and not waste things from a young age can help them and the environment. This will also aid their creativity by allowing them to make something new from old items. I’m talking about old toys, scraps of paper, and other stuff that may be recycled or upcycled into usable objects.
With that in mind, here are 15 easy DIY upcycle projects for kids to help them start recycling!
15. Dinosaur Toilet Paper Roll Craft For Kids : An Easy Dinosaur Craft
Looking for a fun Dinosaur craft you can make with your kids? Then check out this incredibly easy and fun Dino craft! Upcycle toilet paper roll crafts in a fun new way. Head over to my page and check out this easy Dinosaur Toilet paper roll craft. This is an easy dinosaur craft preschool.
Check it here.
14. Best Out of Waste Ideas: Easy & Fun Crafts for Kids
If you’re looking for some fun and cheap activities to do with your kids, these Out of Waste projects are perfect! These crafts are made from recycled materials as well as stuff you probably already have laying around the house! Easy, fun, and hours of entertainment! These ideas are ideal for preschoolers up through early elementary school!
Check it here.
13. Upcycled DIY Bike Bag
Learn how to make a DIY bike bag by upcycling the leg of a pair of pants. This sewing project is quick and easy, and it holds all the essentials on your bike!
Check it here.
12. Upcycled DIY Water Bottle Holder
Learn how to make a DIY water bottle holder by upcycling a pair of pants. Reuse the hem for quicker sewing for this easy, summer sewing project!
Check it here.
11.
Make plastic bottle butterflies with this easy recycled art activity and learn about Monarch butterfly migration.
Check it here.
10.
This do-it-yourself tin can robot craft is the perfect boredom buster for kids. Simply grab a can, glue, magnets and metal fixtures to start creating unique robots today!
Check it here.
9.
Want to learn how to make a rubber band ball? Are you looking for a quick boredom buster for the kids? Today I am going to show you how to make these easy rubber band balls.
Check it here.
8. Upcycling Plastic Bottles into Mickey Mouse Flower Pots
Recycling plastic water bottles is a great way to prevent waste from ending up in oceans. What’s even better than recycling, though, is upcycling. And we absolutely love upcycling plastic bottles into cute Mickey Mouse flower pots (and Minnie Mouse, too!)
Check it here.
7. Toilet Paper Roll Binoculars with only Three Materials
You want to know the best thing about this toilet paper roll craft? The best part is that the average person probably has all the materials on hand to create it! I’m excited to share how to make toilet paper roll binoculars with only three materials that I bet anyone has in their home!
Check it here.
6. How to Make Colourful, Recycled Gift Bows
Our colourful, recycled gift bows are one small way to cut the cost of packaging this Christmas. Made from junk mail and old magazines they are super simple to make but look just as fabulous as anything you might buy in the shops.
Check it here.
5. Egg Carton Rainbow Craft for Kids
This fun and colorful rainbow craft cloud makes cool art to display or share. Made from a recycled egg carton, it’s a perfect spring craft to make together with your kids.
Check it here.
4. Pirate Toilet Paper Roll Craft: A Fun Pirate Themed Craft For Kids
Ahoy! Ready for some fun with this Pirate Toilet Paper roll craft? This fun Pirate themed craft for kids is ready to bring you a fun time along with his trusty parrot side kick. Best of all it includes a free printable template!
Check it here.
3. How To Make A Stick Animal
I do really love to be inspired by nature and I want my children to forever be inspired by it too. I want nature to turn their minds to art to poetry and to storytelling whether they be 5 or 50 so it is important pass on the wonder I find in it and encourage them to seek it too.
Check it here.
2. Twig Crafts
We live in an age of technology, and while that has been really helpful in many ways, it has also led us to be all cooped up indoors, hardly getting out as much as we used to. And while that’s troubling, it is even more concerning with our children doing it.
Check it here.
1. Free DIY Cat Toys – Mice And Fish Sewing Patterns
Free diy cat toys – mice and fish sewing patterns! I’m always looking for fun ways to upcycle old jeans and with two new adopted kittens, it seemed like the perfect time to chop them up for some colorful kitty toys!
Check it here.
