Recycled Crafts For Earth

15 Easy Tips to Get Your Kids to Recycle Taking care of the environment is not only your responsibility, but also your children’s. Recycling can be easy and fun to teach to kids if done in the right way. The home is the ideal place to start teaching kids environmentally responsible practices. The following tips can all be taught at home, and they are designed to make recycling fun and effective, whatever the ages of your kids may be. 1. Lead by Example Most kids learn by observing and imitating. Therefore, with recycling, you must practice what you preach. At home, separate your waste into different brightly colored rubbish bins. These bins should include waste from paper, glass bottles, metallic cans and organic waste. Make sure that when disposing your rubbish, you put each item into the related bin and that your kids observe and repeat your actions. 2. Show Them the Results of Recycling Kids love to ask the question “why.” Explain to them the benefits of recycling, and

DENIM CRAFT: COLORFUL FLOWER FRAME  I love to recycle old blue jeans into something fun. I had collected several pairs and fabric dyed them in different colors and have used them for a bunch of different projects. This flower frame made from colored denim is just one example. Some other colored denim crafts I’ve made include these colorful denim beads and these denim fabric flowers . For this frame it’s really easy. Get yourself one of those $1.00 wood frames from the craft store and paint it. Then simple cut flowers and stems from colored denim and glue them on. Materials : Plain wooden frame Old blue jeans Dark blue acrylic craft paint Scissors Hot glue gun Clothing dye or colorful acrylic paints Instructions Paint the frame with dark blue craft paint and set it aside to dry. Cut green denim into thin strips of varying lengths for the flower stems. Glue them to the frame, ensuring you have three different heights of stems on each side of the frame. Cut fl

Oh how we love paper crafts. Paper ideas for kids. Paper DIY for grown ups. Paper crafts for young and old!  We love paper so much because it is cheap and it is SO versatile.I have been adding more and more paper crafts to the blog – mainly because I have come to realize how paper really is a universal craft material that most people have access to.

14 Fantastic Sustainability and Recycling Anchor Charts You can reuse these recycling anchor charts year after year! It’s so important to promote conservation and sustainability in today’s classrooms. To help teach your students to be responsible citizens of earth, we put together our favorite anchor charts about recycling and sustainability.  (New to anchor charts? Learn everything you need to know here ).  Don’t forget to make your recycling anchor charts reusable and Eco-friendly! First, create the basic text and images. Then, laminate the chart. After that, you’ll be able to use dry-erase markers for students to add their own input over and over again. 1. Give love to the Earth. Start with the simple but eye-catching heart-shaped earth graphic in the middle. Then, have students help you fill in the activities of a true earth lover, like planting trees or saving water. 2. Use a familiar phrase. This famous phrase has been around for decades, teaching u

Sign Up for the PepsiCo Recycle Rally! Brought to you by  Pepsi Co Recycle Rally Recycle Rally  is a free nationwide program that directly benefits K–12 schools and students by providing valuable incentives and resources to help make recycling easy, fun and rewarding. Get your students pumped up to recycle by joining Pepsi Co’s Recycle Rally. When you set recycling goals to increase recycling and track progress, everyone wins! It’s free, it’s easy and it comes with loads of perks including: Awesome prizes like T-shirts, gift cards and more! Access to free lessons and activities to teach kids about recycling. Free printable posters and certificates to reward your top recyclers. A web portal where you can easily track your school’s recycling progress. Fun challenges and the chance to win big cash prizes! Questions about how it works? Visit  Recycle Rally . Join today and get your school excited about recycling. Then, start the year off strong

8 Amazing, Creative , Must-See Videos to Promote Recycling at School Your green curriculum just got an upgrade. It’s time to spice up the message of “Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.” Recycling, sustainability, and green habits are such important lessons for today’s classrooms, but these can be hard messages to tackle without coming across as preachy. So instead of trying to educate your students in the same old ways (because all teachers know how well they can tune you out), it’s time to use a different method …an approach that is already part of their daily lives. Enter the power of video! Video has always been one of the most engaging ways to educate kids, and it’s getting better and more captivating every day. Take a look at how these creative recycling videos can help get your students excited about recycling. 1. Because messages through dance are awesome … Cedric Gardner is the teacher and creative brain behind this choreographed dance video to promote recycling in

15 Ideas Big and Small to Bring Recycling Into the Classroom Help your students take recycling to a whole new level in your classroom with these inspiration ideas and projects. Take the motto “Reduce, reuse and recycle” to a whole new level in your classroom with these fun and easy ideas. Your students will become recycling gurus before the year is over! 1. Hold a recycling contest. Who can recycle the most in a day, week or even a month? This is an easy challenge to execute—just get multiple recycling bins and start collecting. How you run the contest is up to you, but here are a few ideas: Divide up your class to form two to four different teams, challenge another classroom in the school, or even have a teachers-vs.-students contest. You can use the printable signs for cans and bottles from Recycle Rally. 2. Up-cycle plastic containers. You can find oodles of plastic containers around the house that make handy-dandy organizers. Challenge your students to look around their houses or

Thanksgiving Turkey Craft This is something we did last year and enjoyed so much, we thought we’d do it again. The idea, however, originated years ago with some of my school friends. I wish I could show you that turkey, because it was HUGE and filled up an entire wall! Enjoy making your turkey (whatever size it may be) with your kids! Materials: brown paper bag  newspaper, cotton balls, or other filling  tape or sticky tack  stapler  colored construction paper (at least black, yellow, white, orange and red)  scissors  pen or marker  Instructions : Cut two bowling pin-shaped turkey bodies out of a brown paper bag. Stuff the middle (we used old newspapers) and staple them together to form the turkey's body.  Cut out a pilgrim hat and buckle, eyes, nose, feet and wattle (the red, dangling body part under a turkey's neck) from the construction paper. Glue them on the turkey.   Cut out feathers from the rest of your construction paper. Each feather wi

Free Recycling Posters: Inspire Your Students to Care About the Planet Green is the new black. Use our free, printable recycling posters to encourage students to take care of the earth. These four 8×11 mini-posters are great inspirational tools to remind students to not only recycle but to aspire to be green leaders in their school and community! Remember, it’s simple acts that make a BIG impact! Here’s a sneak peek at what you’ll get: R ecycling Turns Things into Other Things It’s like magic. Green Is the New Black It’s important to stay on trend, don’t you know? Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Repeat Now this is a cycle I can get behind. Recycle Today for a Better Tomorrow Even one bottle makes a difference.