Best Earth Day Kid Crafts

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Best Earth Day Kid Crafts

Best Recycling Craft Ideas for Kids

These Best Earth Day kid crafts are a fabulous way to celebrate the magnificence of our planet while making a difference.  Whether planting, crafting or talking about ways to make Earth healthy, I hope you find a way to celebrate.  April is the month that we celebrate Earth Day and all of the many ways we can take care of our planet.

FREE PRINTABLE Activities for Earth Day

Earth Day and Recycling FREE Printable Activities

EARTH Day and Planting Things

It’s always a good idea to teach kids how things grow!  This fun project uses recycled items to make the planters!  You can grab the details for it here on the blog!

Recycled Box Planters with DecoArt

Recycled Ideas for Earth Day Kid Crafts

When creating craft projects for kids and families, it is fun to make things using recycled items from around the house.  I am excited to share three fun ones that can be done with materials that I am guessing, all houses have.  Gather up your cans, jars and old keys and get ready.Here are a few of my favorite recycled crafts projects.

Recycled Crafts for Kids

Fairy Lanterns

Food jars are a great start to making fairy lanterns for the outdoors.  You will need a few things to get started.

Supplies:

Directions:

Paint designs with DecoArt paint on the jars and let it dry.  I like this paint because it is thick and doesn’t run.  Once it is dry, put a thick coat of Deco-Pauge over it to seal the paint for the outdoors.  Wrap wire around the lip of the jar and tie ribbons to decorate.  The jars are fun to place in the garden and hang from trees.  Burning candles in them at night provides light for the fairies.

Fairy Jar Recycled Craft for Kids

Glass jars are great for so many things.  Another great way to recycle them is to wrap them in yarn and make flower jars.  If you use Eco-Fi basic felt by Kunin Group (which is made from recycled bottles) for flowers you can create masterpieces!  These would make fantastic gifts.

Yarn Wrapped Jar Recycled Kid Craft

Tin Can Stilts

Tin cans (coffee cans are best) are fantastic for making stilts.  You will need to clean the cans and remove all the labels before getting started.  Be sure to have the following supplies ready too.

Supplies:

Directions:

Paint your cans to decorate them.  Punch holes in the can on either side.  Use yarn to make the handles.  I braided colors together to make it a thicker handle.  Your final yard handle should measure the height from your child’s armpit to their ankle then doubled.  Tie the yarn handle through the holes of the can to complete the stilt.  You will need to do this for both cans.  When the child stands on the can and hold the handles to balance, they become taller.  This is a great activity for coordination and balance.

Tin Can Stilts Recycled Craft for Kids

Wind Chimes From Old Keys

Old keys make great wind chimes.  To make these you will need the following items.

Supplies:

Directions:

  1. Punch seven holes around the outside of the plastic lid.
  2. Cut 7 pieces of yard measuring 18 inches in length and thread one through each hole.
  3. Tie the 7 pieces of yarn together on the top of the lid forming a knot.
  4. Make 7 flowers or beads with Sculpey Bake Shop clay that have holes in the middles.  These will keep your keys from getting twisted together when the wind blows.
  5. Tie your flowers to the yarn halfway between the end and the lid.
  6. Add your keys to the bottom of each piece of yard in knots.
  7. Hang your wind chime and enjoy the music.

Recycled Keys Wind Chime Recycled Kid Craft

Best Earth Day Book

The Lorax is the BEST Earth Day book I know of!  I LOVE it so much that I create a whole Lorax party.

Lorax Party Ideas

Give the Gift of Earth

Download this FREE printable page of tags.  Cut them out.  Attach them to seeds or little plants and give them to friends.  This is a great way for kids to give to other kids.

Earth Day Gift Tag

Got more ideas?  Comment and share them with me!

XO,

Laura

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112 thoughts on “Best Earth Day Kid Crafts”

  4. Cool ideas. I’m looking at using some SB bottles to make crafts with the kids. If I won the Home Depot gift card, I’d buy wood to make my own frames.

  9. I would buy some paint. It is amazing how much you can transform a home with a little bit of paint. For under $100 you can do an entire house.

  12. Lots of fun things here.
    If I win, I’ll get some
    flowers for my planters
    around my yard!
    Carla from Utah

  13. Hi! I love all the ideas you gave us and especially like the super cute key windchimes! Thanks for the opportunity to win the gift card! If I were lucky enough to win, I would use the gift card to buy some paint to freshen up an old planter box. Many thanks again!

  14. I’d love to buy garden supplies! First time growing a garden with my kiddos! Our indoor sprouts are doing well 🙂

  17. I want to hit up the paint section and buy the clearance paint LoL Seriously though, it makes for the perfect art mural work without having to pay full price!
    I also need mulch for my flower beds; so any which way, it will be money well spent and invested back into sprucing up my home.

  19. Lots of fun project ideas! I love the wind chimes with the old keys!
    With $50 extra, I’d get some pretty plants to spruce up my front deck! Some flowers to give it some color would be really nice!

  27. With an extra $50 I would buy wood to make a cute plant stand table to hold the potted plants in my new garden (it’s about $45 in wood)!

  29. I am hoping to be able to move within the next year, so maybe moving supplies. Thank you for the chance to win!

  31. My oldest son loves gardening. I would buy supplies to build him a small garden pot and garden supplies to put inside the planter.

  40. For $50 I could get the supplies for so many projects…..right now I am focusing on my garden so probably more plants. Thank you for the chance to win a gift card!

  46. Since I just killed a huge spider in my living room today, it would have to be some bug spray!!

  47. I saw a project where they made like a ladder shelf to put their Christmas village on. I need something I can put up and the easily store away. I need the wood, and hinges to make it.

  49. Hopefully, we will have time to plant flowers before fall comes. So I would buy plants and soil. Thanks for the chance to win!

  58. I’d use this to buy tomato and strawberry plants, seeds and soil for my patio garden and a few new house plants for my house too! Thank you for this wonderful giveaway!

  59. I am in desperate need of a new kitchen faucet. I have not had a functioning kitchen sink or dishwasher since early last year. Thanks for the great ideas!!

  75. I would use the gift card towards a weed trimmer or lawn mower. Now that it’s warmer weather the grass and weeds are really growing fast with all the spring showers.

  80. I have a list of things I keep adding to that I want from Home Depot! I think I will put that list aside and would get some nice plants if I could!

  83. We recently bought a house so there is NO end to how much we’ll be buying this summer at the hardware store! It’s a 1949 vintage house … my first purchase will be caulk and some spackle to fix all those nail holes in the walls!

  86. I’d like to buy a can of paint so I can repaint the kitchen cabinets. And whatever is left over, I would let one of my girls, who has a huge green thumb, pick out some plants!

  87. I’d start getting some gardening stuff because we garden during summer time and want to see if my step dad needs any additional for the space in our backyard.

  95. I have been wanting to buy some new lights to decorate my apartment balcony with. This gift card would be awesome to use for that!

  107. I would buy the materials I need to make the correct sized shelves with rails for my sons bathroom. I can not find what I am looking for and they are pretty easy to make.

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