Recycling Crafts for Kids: Art on a Shoestring: Making Art with Recycled Materials for K-12: KinderArt

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Make coffee can drums

Coffee Can Drums

K-2, Grades 3-5

Water Mist Globes. KinderArt.com

Water Mist Globes

PreK, K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8

Grass Head Guy

Grass Head Guy

K-2, Grades 3-5

Milk jug shakere

Make a Sticker Shekere

K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8

Making a decorative harp box. Image: Mariella Pace

Harp Box

K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8

Make a Chinese Gong

Chinese Gong

Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Tin can sculpture

Tin Can Sculpture

Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Scrap wood sculpture

Scrap Wood Sculpture

K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Pumpkin Seed Mosaics Lesson from KinderArt.com

Pumpkin Seed Mosaics

K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Juice bottle penguin art lesson plan. KinderArt.com.

Juice Bottle Penguin Sculptures

K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8

Media Collage

Media Collages

K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Make maracas using paper cups.

Maracas (Paper Cups)

PreK, K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8

Make maracas using recycled materials.

Maracas (Recycled Objects)

PreK, K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Make Gargoyles!

Coffee Tray Gargoyles

K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Clothespeg Dragonflies

Clothespeg Dragonfly Sculpture

K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8

Make a bean mosaic.

Bean Mosaics

K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8

Louise Nevelson collage art lesson

Louise Nevelson Assemblages

Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

Shaved crayon window hangings

Shaved Crayon Window Hangings

Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12

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