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Heart Paper Cuts: Make your own" I Love You" card: Love this idea! Simple to do with magnets and cut up magazines.
A paper roll love bug Have fun making this love bug with a toilet paperor paper towel tubes and some paper scraps. Decorate with ribbons, beads, buttins, too! Here they used pipe cleaners. You could use bag ties.
Make Valentine Bingo Board Game. For a recycle project: Use the other side of food packaging or construction paper. Use candy hearts, buttons or beads or whatever for the bingo chips
Valentine heart from recycled egg crates Pot of Recycled Flowers Heart bookmark Make a heart shaped bookmark from fabric or paperor scraps
Ribbon scrap bookmarks Easy to make bookmarks using recycled materials. Tie a string and add beads, buttons, candy hearts.
Recycle mosaic cards or decorationsMake a heart or a couple of hearts..or a key to your heart
Valentine Magnets Made with recycled bottle caps...hearts, flowers can be fun themes
Make a Heart Shaped Tree Cone using recycled greeting cards and other recyled materials such as jewelry. A fun decoration 
Cereal Box Valentine Carier. What a fun way to carry and save valentines using a recycle box
A Game of Hearts! Whether you string Playing cards to make a garland or make a wreath---it's a great recycle idea for old playing cards.
Paper Towel Roll Cupid Recycle Craft so Cute!
More Valentine crafts here Make this shamrock with 3 bcorks or a 4 leaf clover with 4! Tiethem together, dip in green paint and stamp. 
St Patrick's Day Leprechaun>
3 leaf or 4 leaf Tissue Paper Clover
Tub Style Leprechaun Hat
Tub Style Leprechaun Hat
Cup Style Leprechaun Hat Make a Blarney Stone or two!
Egg Carton Clover-Simple-cut-paste-paint. Add a ribbon or popsicle stick for the stem
Rag Wreath-No sew simply tie leftover fabric scraps (or clothing scraps) in green tones to a wreath, round wire or foam form. Use your imagination!
Mosaic shamrock- make a clover, add paper scraps in green tones. Make a 3 leaf or 4 leaf!. Great use of paper scraps or old st patrick day cards cut up. This is a great craft for any holidfay symbol-heart for valentines, etc.use your imagination!
Make Non Toxic Natural Color Dyes for Easter eggs as well as other non toxic craft supplies!
Easter Flowers Soda Bottle Basket Easter Egg Carton Chicks
Easter Egg Animals Recycled Plastic Egg Snake or Pull Toy
Upecycled Clothes Pin Bunnies
Bunny and Chicks from Jars or (4oz) Soda Cans
Milk Carton Bunny Basket -this is a great for easter baskets or decorations--use felt or colored papers to decorate.
Make Patriotic Flag and Star
Uncle Sam's Hat Put a bang in the holiday with these easy toilet paper tube decorations and favors
Patriotic Star Wand
4th of July Recycle Rockets Cute idea for 4th of july...red, white and blue-but very green rockets made from toilet paper rolls.
Fourth of July Windsock
Cool on a hot day! Make these fans with any flag design using popsicle sticks and (recycled) paper.
Make this clever utensil holoder for straws, napkins, silverware using paper rolls! Make it for any holiday decor.
Recycle Cans for Party Foods and Favors Make these using cans and recycled papers and fabric-decorate!
Uncle Sam Party Foods and Favors Make an uncle sam robot for any patriotic holiday using cans--why not add a flag or uncle sam hat!
Patriotic Recycle Mobile Made With Lids Use plastic lids and fishing line or string to make this mobile!
A Natural! Flag Made With Twigs or Sticks Use sticks, twine, fishing line or string to make this flag. Size of sticks determines the size of your flag. Add a string hanger.
Make a Trees and Scenery Tube Trees
Help Greenbean Choose a Costume! (Paper Dolls): Make Maracas Make "God's Eyes" Make a Mexican Hat Chilean Rain Sticks Made from paper towel tubes and filled with popcorn. Sounds like a real rain stick! Teach geography, science, social studies. Decorate according to age level
Make A Recycle Pinnate: Exclusive Planetpals Make Pinatas from containers for New Years, birthdays, Mardi Gras, Cinquo De mayo!
Make these festive decorations with cup cake papers, k cups, yogurt cups, fruit cups
Scrap papers and tissue make fun pinatas. How to make tissue flowers
Ghostly Juice Box Noismakers
Mardi Gras Masks Make these masks with recycle materials
Handprint mask for mardi gras, carnivale or halloween How cute is this handprint mask for mardi gras. Use recycle materials!
Make Brown Bag Mard Gras Hats: make these hats or hats from other containers for New Years, birthdays, halloween, dress up whatever!
Mardi Gras Pirate Coin Bracelet: Use any coins, candy coins, fake coins, real coins.
What to do with Mardi Gras Beads after Mardi Gras
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Make Tuna Can World Globe:
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Such fun for Earthday or Earth Science and geography learning
Paper Mache Globe Recipes and Patterns:
Exclusive Planetpals Three Patterns! Make the Planetpal, the world, or a Santa Ornament in Paper Mache-just use a balloon!
Make an Earth Ornament with a CD or Plastic Lid
Use a recycled CD or DVD to make this Earth ornament
Make a Recycle Costume
Planetpals Exclusive!
This is really fun for Earthday or any green event -Why not have a recycle parade!
Earth Pinata
This is perfect for earthday or an earth Party. Fill it with Earthy things like rubber bugs, flowers and dinosaurs.
Earthday Handprints Simply make a hand print using kids safe hand paint.
Make A Non Toxic Play Dough Exclusive Planetpals
Make A Non Toxic Puffy Paint Exclusive Planetpals
Make Beeswax Non Toxic Crayons
Earth Made With Recycled Bottlecaps a great class project for the wall. Or make it a game!
Plastic Bottlecap Earth Necklace Paint it on top or inside your bottlecap. Use plastic or metal bottlecaps. Make a necklace, pin or magnet!
What is inside Earth? Clay Model. This is a great idea for Earth Science learning! Earth globe inside and out.Be greener! Make it with our recipe for natural clay below.
Beadie Babies Bead crafts:
Exclusive Planetpals Nine instruction patterns in all, one for each Planetpal. Easy to follow directions that show you how to make them out of beads...very cute and lots of fun!
Planetpals Characters Coloring Pages
Exclusive Planetpals Print and use Planetpals coloring art to your crafts or as models for clay projects--extend eco friendly messages
Shoebox Diorama World
Planetpals Exclusive!
This is a favorite Earthday Idea! Convert a shoebox to a favorite place. Teach kids to love the world.
More Earthday Crafts HERE
Make a CD Peace Mirror Ornament:
Exclusive PlanetpalsDirections for making peace symbol ornament using a recycled CD or DVD
Make a Peace Lantern
Exclusive PlanetpalsDirections for making peace lanterns-use recycled materials
Make a Peace Ribbon
Exclusive PlanetpalsDirections for making peace ribbons and ribbon pins-use recycled ribbon!
Thousand Cranes Origami
Exclusive PlanetpalsDirections for making an origami crane. Make it from recycled paper.
Peace Bracelets
Exclusive PlanetpalsDirections, Styles and History of friendship and peace bracelets. Make from recycled yarn -Best directions on the web :)
Peace Wrap
Wrap up Peace Day with this recycle idea. Make a peace symbol frame and wrap with, fabric magazine strips or wrappers! Colorful!
Make a peace symbol using melted crayons.
Make a peace sign with pop tops. Great way to recycle them.
Paper Plate Peace Sign
- Everyday Planetpals Crafts All Ages
- Everyday Recycle Crafts 4 Kids
- Holiday Recycle Crafts 4 Kids
- Recycle Gardening Crafts and Tips
Gifts: Mother's Day, Fathers Day Recycle Crafts:
Make a Recycle Treasure or Tool Jar!
Planetpals Exclusive!
Unique Ideas, how to instructions, samples. Make a treasure jar for holidays, mothers day, fathers day, everyday.Simple and Easy.
Recycle Photos Keychain
Lots of fun for any special person made from photos (or copies of). A KEEPER!
Recycle Trophy Cup
Lots of fun for any special person made from cups and paper rolls. "World's Best Mom" "World's Best Dad" "World's Best Brother" or "Best Soccer Player"."World's Best Planetpal"Possibilities endless and so cute!
Mini Tool Boxes from Recycled Tins
Perfect for Father's Day!
Simple idea-paint them one color or paint a design. Just an old tin (any size) and a handle.
Mom & Dad Bags for Mother's & Father's Day
Lots of fun for any special mom and dad. (Add buttons, flowers and bows for mom). Make a gift and put it in a home made Bag. Try to use recycled materials to decorate your bag, too!
A Key (Chain) That Will Stay Close to Dad's Heart!
Exclusive Planetpals
Use recycled materials, trace hand onto recycled paper or cardboard, reduce in a copier...directions
Make a Memory Box or Memory Greeting Card
Perfect for Father's Day, Mothers Day, Anyday!
Start with recycled paper, card or make your own paper from recycled paper. Make it meaningful..
Make a Recycled Button Bracelet
Planetpals Exclusive!
Directions for making recycled buttons and beads bracelets and tieing a jewelry knot
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Make a Recycled Button Pins
Planetpals Exclusive!
Directions for making recycled button Pin from old jewelry and buttons-plus free stencils
Help Greenbean Choose a Costume! (Paper Dolls):
Exclusive Planetpals Print and play. Cut out Planetpals paper Doll and learn about the seasons, comes with four outfits.
Necktie Scarecrow Not So Scary! But fun! Very simple..dress up some criss crossed sticks with an old tie, add yarn or straw and a head made with paper,bottle cap or jar cover
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Recycle Gloves Make Monster Hands
Make Halloween spooky..decorate old garden, rubber or warm weather gloves to make scary monster hands. Use glue gun, felt, scraps. As a yard decoraton---stuff them, add a stick and stick them in the lawn!
Monster Feet-Get two shoe boxes and add elements to decorate them either cute or scary. Make the gloves above and you have a costume!
Toilet Paper Tube Halloween Bat
Halloween will be flying high made with toilet paper roll bats. You can also use paper towel or any tube shaped package. How about jars with votives?
Milk Bottle Pumpkins
Pumpkins have never been so green! These are easy and tres adorable!
Egg Carton Halloween Pumpkins
Pumpkins that will be a howl for preschoolers! So clever from egg carton cups.
Spooky Cooky Halloween Cans
Pick any size can for these and use a variety of recycled materials to decorate them! Don't get too frightened...these are easy
Boo-tle Halloween Ghosts
Make these from individual milk bottles or yogurt bottles. All you need is a marker
Glass Jar Halloween Votive Holders
Similar idea for glass jars-can be used with votives for a Halloween party.
Milk Jug Halloween Ghosts
This is a reuse craft we love perfect it lets kids help with decorating, too! Add lights or flashlight and you can line your walk way.
More Halloween Crafts HERE
Thankful Turkey Jar Teach kids to give thanks with this meaningful recycle jar turkey
Thanksgiving Turkey
Make a turkey from a toilet paper roll or cup.
Thanksgiving Pilgrim Hat
Make a pilgrim hat from toilet paper roll or cup (for larger ones use large yogurt containers). Take off the bottom of the cup and fill it or leave it as is.
Toilet Paper Pilgrims
Make a pilgrim or Indian with TP Rolls. When i was a kid we used to make them from oranges and put a hat on! Make The Matching Milk Carton Boat the Nina, Pinta SantaMaria
Pilgrim Hat Name Card Holder
This is a fun decoration for the table to hold name cards
Make Gnomes, Witch or Santa from Sticks (or tubes?) Make a Gnome, Witch or a Santa! A great multi holiday craft. Use sticks or even try it with recycled tubes. Adorable--any age
More Thanksgiving Crafts HERE
Recycle Boat That Floats!
A Not only can you make it--you can float it. Made from waxed milk, juice or cream container. Perfect for the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria-Columbus Day
Winter / Christmas / Chanukah / Eid / New Years Themes and Holidays Recycle Crafts:
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Make a Christmas Card:
Exclusive Planetpals card. Print and play, cut and color.
Make a Holiday Ornament:
Exclusive Planetpals "Seasons greenings" print, cut, paste tree ornament
Make Your Own Box Ornament:
Exclusive Planetpals Print, Design, Cut, Hang this square box shaped ornament for any holiday!
Japanese Origami STAR Ornament
Exclusive Planetpals Learn about the Japanese art of paper folding. Make an Origami star ornament from paper squares. Make one for your tree, or several to decorate your house or presents!
Planetpals Recycle Crafts
Advent Calendars: Many recycle count down calendars for Chanukah, Christmas, etc - made from many different upcycled items...all age groups
Fabric Wrapped: Two great Fabric ideas for Christmas decor. Fabric covered conrd make a tree and fabric covered strips make garland
Make Snow globes
All you need is a trinket, glitter, jar. Use small toys or ornaments, make it for any day or holiday. See all Planetpals Recycled Holiday Crafts
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Sharpie and Wax Paper Stained Glass Craft. Make candleholders on glass jars, frame or window clings. Simple!
Christmas Choir:
Made from toilet paper and paper towel rolls. Cute as can be
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Toilet Paper Santa
Made from toilet paper and cotton -you can use aa photo of dad or pain the face!
Recycle Box Gingerbread House
Made from boxes this gingerbread house can be made by any age group. Decorate with paint, felt, frosting, clay, add small toys, anything goes! Pattern here.
Popsicle Stick Santa,
Dress up this adorable santa from sticks with a variety of recycle materials
Popsicle Tree, Reindeer, Chanukah Star
Popsicle sticks have never been so cute-preschool simplicity!
Popsicle Stick Ornament
Try this happy ornament! Could you make a Halloween Pumpkin? Easter Bunny? Pilgrim? Santa?
Make a Paper mache Santa (or Snowman) Ornament
Planetpals Exclusive!
Cereal Box Snowman So many recycled objects-box, cups, Love this!
Make a Snow Measuring Stick-Use a paint stick and recycle items to measure snow. This snow ruler is a cute holiday decoration, too!
Bottle Cap Snowman Use a recycle materials to make a snowman picture or snowman, santa or elf head ornament
Egg Carton Christmas Tree-Simple-cut-paste-paint
Egg Carton Bells Simple-egg carton painted and hung by a robbon or string. Decorate.
Egg Carton Snowman
Egg Carton Santas
Recycled Paper Snowflake Make a paper snowflake using recycled papers or gift wrap!
Shoebox and Paper Tube Nativity: This can be done with any age group!
Paper Bag Gingerbread House: Use crayons, sticker, cut up magazines to decorate them. Cute for a preschool project...Use boxes or bags. Use used lunch bags.
Sharpie and Wax Paper Stained Glass CraftsMake candleholders on glass jars, frame or window clings. Simple!.
Coffee Can Santa and Snowman - you can also use oatmeal tins, pringles containers and small cans. Why not an elf or santa's fleet of raindeer?
Recycled Tuna Can Basket Basket (could also make a Bunny for Easter
Recycled Tuna Can Snowman Basket (could also make a Bunny for Easter, ghost for halloween, etc) Planetpals Exclusive!
Make a Popsicle Stick Menorah and Dradle 4 Chanukah
Popsicle sticks are so versatile!
Chanukah Candle Holder Simple from milk or juice cartons
Milk Carton Dradle Made with small milk carton Painted 
Menurah Made with Recycle Paper Rolls
Another Menurah Made with Recycle Paper Rolls
Wreath Made with fabroc scraps
Hebrew Made with Recycle Buttons
Hebrew painted on stones and rocks
6 Pointed Star Made with popsicle syicks. Hang it up or use as an ornament or table setting
More Judaica crafts on our GREEN Hanukkah pinterest board
Make Brown Bag Party Hats: make these hats or hats from other containers for New Years, birthdays, halloween, dress up whatever!
Best Directions for Party Hats Ever! make these for New Years, birthdays, halloween, dress up whatever!
New Year Noisemakers on a Stick Great for any age! Use yogurt cups
New Year Noisemakers
These are fun for preschool! Paint them to match your holiday and use beans inside to make noise as well as paper punch. *milk bottle caps also work as end caps!
Covered Tube Noisemakers-use recycled gift wrap or tissue
New Years Shiners Plastic tubs and bottles cut up to make sparkles
Water bottle noisemaker Also for any age--decorate to match the holiday!
More New Year Crafts HERE
Pie Plate Maskscan also be done with disposable plastic or paper plates. Use recycle materials to decorate!
Shoe Box or Food Box Dragon. Decorate using recycled materials
Egg Carton Dragon. Paint and decorate this clever Chinese New Year toy.
Paper Lanterns Use recycled paper or magazine pages
More New Year Crafts HERE
More New Year CraftsHERE
for a happy Boy's Day Japan! Use a paper tube, paper cup, aluminum can to make a carp like this. Why not add ribbons fro streamers and hang it
Make Daruma Dolls from Clay or Rocks The Daruma is rich in symbolism and is regarded more as a talisman of good luck in Japan. It has the meaning of standing up positively even if failing.
Make a Fan w Popsicle Sticks & Recycled Paper Why not use giftwrap, magazine pages or fabric to make this greener. Great project for summer!
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