Showing posts with label Recycled Crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recycled Crafts. Show all posts
This adorable Toilet Paper Roll Peacock Craft will add some serious fun to your kid's craft time!

toilet paper roll peacock craft
 
Turn a piece of cardboard into an adorable 3D llama. This 3D cardboard llama craft not only looks adorable, but it also stands up by itself!  Just follow the simple steps below to make a llama craft (or a whole family of them) of your own! Or why not take this cardboard box craft even further and follow the steps, but vary them slightly, to make a different animal of your choice! 

Cardboard Llama Craft for Kids

Turn old bottle caps into seriously cute spooky creatures with this Bottle Cap Bat Craft! These eerie cuties are perfect for decorating the house during the Halloween season, and your little ones will have tons of fun making them.

bottle cap bat craft
 
Teach your kids the importance of recycling with this easy homemade stamps craft. In this DIY tutorial, we’ll teach you how to make a stamp from a bottle cap and craft foam. 

How to make a stamp tutorial
 

You have to try this Colorful Cardboard Bird Craft. The making process is so much fun that it will irresistible to kids big and small!


Colourful Cardboard Bird Craft for Kids

 

Whether you want your little ones to enjoy some playful time making paper crafts or explore their creative side, this Toilet Paper Roll Frog Craft is up for the task!

Toilet paper roll frog craft

 
Remember those Christmases and birthdays when your baby or toddler seemed far more interested in the box that a gift came in rather than the gift itself? That's because a box can become anything with a little imagination and creativity. Help your kids get back to creative play with these fun cardboard box crafts.

cardboard box crafts

Butterfly crafts are perfect for the summer months.  Today we are sharing a toilet roll handprint butterfly craft with moveable wings. This adorable kids craft is easy to make and toddlers and preschoolers will love playing with their new diy butterfly toy. 


Toilet roll handprint butterfly craft for kids. An easy and adorable activity for  toddlers and preschoolers to enjoy. Perfect for a summer or minibeast project.

Easter egg hunts are so much fun! Today, we are sharing an easy easter basket craft for kids to make themselves, and all you need is a plastic bottle. We used a milk bottle, added a few decorations, and we were ready to go egg hunting! Toddlers and preschoolers will love being able to make their own easter baskets for an Easter hunt.

Plastic bottle Easter basket craft for kids. An easy Easter activity for toddlers, preschoolers and older kids.
Recycle old broken crayons and turn them into fun shaped crayons at home by following our simple instructions. Homemade crayons make a fun gift idea for toddlers and preschoolers, as well as older kids. Today we are sharing some rainbow bunny themed crayons which are perfect for Easter time.

How to make shape crayons at home. Follow these easy instructions to recycle broken crayons into fun shaped crayons. A simple DIY and fun gift idea for toddlers and preschoolers as well as older kids. 'Knuffle Bunny' book activity idea.

Toddlers and preschoolers will love recycling old toilet rolls and cupcake cases to make simple fairy house luminaries.  DIY fairy houses are fun to make and easy enough for kids of all ages to make. The best bit is that this simple recycled craft doubles up as a fun DIY toy. 
DIY toilet roll fairy house luminaries for kids. Simple recycled craft ideas for toddlers and preschoolers. Use this fun DIY toy to create a fairy small world play activity.
Who knew that bottle caps could be used for so many different crafts! Are you the kind of person that just can't throw anything away? Well here is a section of my favourite bottle cap crafts for kids. I have included craft ideas that use both metal and plastic bottle caps and some of these ideas are easy enough for toddlers and preschoolers to enjoy. I love that some of these bottle cap crafts can be played with, whilst other make beautiful decorations. 


Bottle cap crafts for kids.  A collection of fun bottle top ideas for toddlers, preschoolers and older kids to make from bottle tops.

We made a Bat plane craft for our toy batman figure using just a piece of cardboard and a toilet roll tube! This batman craft is easy to make following our simple instructions and is perfect for little boys or girls that love superheroes. I created a FREE PRINTABLE with the batman logo on to complete the look! 


Superhero craft ideas for kids (boys).  How to make a Batplane / Batmobile for your batman figure.

Horsie, horsie don't you stop, just let your feet go clippety clop. For this weeks rhyme time we have made a simple hobby horse. Using cardboard tubes and our FREE PRINTABLE this craft is simple to set up and perfect for all ages from toddlers upwards.  


Simple hobby horse craft using recycled cardboard tubes:free printable

Arrrr...me hearties! Kids will love being a pirate for the day and making their own pirate treasure chest craft!  This easy egg carton craft for kids is perfect for toddlers and preschooler to make and then use in imaginative play.  An egg carton treasure chest makes a great prop for pretend play or it could be used to collect treasure during a treasure hunt! 

 Egg carton treasure chest craft for kids
Spoon puppets are great for story telling and pretend play.   For todays craft we made Goldilocks and The Three Bears puppets from wooden spoons.  They are really easy and cheap to make and we had lots of fun retelling and making up our own versions of the story with them.

How to make Goldilocks and The Three Bears Spoon Puppets. A great kids craft and activity for retelling and acting out this popular Fairy Tale. Preschoolers and toddlers will love these hard wearing puppets for pretend play.
How do you recycle cardboard rolls? Make swords of course! A perfect craft for little boys (and girls!) cardboard swords are simple to make and prefect for pretend play. 


Cardboard roll sword craft for boys

Paper cup pom pom shooters only take minutes to make but are loads of fun! All you need is a paper cup, a balloon and some pom poms! 

Paper cup pom pom shooter activity for kids

Humpty Dumpty Egg Weebles are a quick and fun accompaniment to the nursery rhyme  'Humpty Dumpty'.  Will you be able to knock your Humpty Dumpty weeble off his wall or will he stand back up again? 

Humpty Dumpty Plastic Egg Weebles Craft
Let kids have fun creating and playing with a dinosaur small world in a box. Add a sensory element to your child's play by adding cloud dough.  

Dinosaur small world in a box

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