kids recycling projects

A:--Turn an egg carton into a bird feeder. Remove (and discard) the flat lid from the carton, poke a hole in the four corners, and run a string through each hole. Gather the eight strings together at the center of the carton, then tie into a knot. Fill each egg cup with birdseed, hang the feeder from a tree branch, and ring the dinner bell for your feathered guests. --Create inventive holiday ornaments from burned-out light bulbs and old holiday cards. --Turn old plastic film canisters upside down and use them as finger puppets. Dress them up by adding features like fabric ears, small googly eyes, and pom-pom noses. --Tired of looking at your old drinking glasses? Give them new life by wrapping decorative paper around them to make instant candle lanterns. * Transform a cardboard tube into a musical instrument. Fill it with beans or pennies, seal the ends with tape, then wrap with festive paper to make a fun and simple percussion instrument. --Wondering what to do with stray puzzle pieces? Before you toss them out, consider this: You can fashion them together into a fun and funky photo frame. --Turn single socks into sock art! Just glue on pom-poms, buttons, and ribbon to make a colorful caterpillar. Then, cut a pipe cleaner in half and push both pieces through the toe of the sock to make antennae. Create the finishing touches by drawing on eyes and a mouth with a felt-tip marker. Voila --Almost any paper product can become gift wrap. Try your hand with newsprint, magazines, calendars, wallpaper, maps, and more! --Recycle an old CD to make a colorful clock. Check out these project designs that are simple to print and apply to a CD. --That baby food jar can become something elegant with one tea candle and our printed wraps . What could be simpler? --It’s hard to imagine an old tin can as something beautiful and functional, but try this. Print out our artistic wraps and turn that old can into a beautiful holder for pencils, brushes, scissors, or markers.

A:Not sure if your school would allow this, but how about a red worm recycling bin? For scrap food. Then the product, the dirt, could be bagged and sold giving the kids a chance at a business practice (math) and other people skills. They could even use the dirt to plant veggie starts or flowers (science) and give those away for Mom's day or sell them too. I'd think that this would be an outstanding project to help the class. They could even add stuff from the cafeteria instead of throwing it away.

A:Make your poster out of paper mache newspaper(recycling the newspaper as a good example proving a point), and then write something creative on it like, "theres more than one way to recycle" or something. Like, showing your school that, you don't have to like, recycle through the state, you can do creative things to reuse things.

A:You're amazing. Really. To see a high school student taking these steps is heartwarming. Check here for ideas/resources: http://www.aashe.org/index.php For you fundraising ideas, you might try to get some of the musicians in your school to throw a Sustainability Benefit. Look to LiveEarth as an example of what can be done: www.liveearth.org These concerts connected over 1/3 of the world's population over a period of 24 hours, and the recycling team that supported these shows had an average of 92% waste stream diversion from landfills. Check with this company for inspiration/advice. The President and VP are friends of mine, and they would love to know that younger generations are taking up the torch. http://www.sevenstarevents.com/ Good luck!

A:Textile art is a very obvious area for recycling as people who can afford to buy so many fashion clothes and soft furnishings that they then get tired of. Also paper collage in that it can use so much from colour magazines and advertising. Do a search for 'recycled textile art' for a start and you will find quite a lot.