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Fun Re-Purposing Projects For Earth Day

The document provides instructions for several upcycling and reuse projects kids can do to celebrate Earth Day, including making a cereal box guitar, tin can wind chimes, homemade confetti crayons, rain sticks, a bread tag village, a cereal box puppet theater, paper beads, milk and vinegar plastic models of the Earth, tissue paper spring lanterns, a milk carton bird feeder, and backyard safari binoculars made from toilet paper rolls. The projects allow kids to creatively reuse common household items to learn about reducing waste and protecting the planet.

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Fun Re-Purposing Projects For Earth Day

The document provides instructions for several upcycling and reuse projects kids can do to celebrate Earth Day, including making a cereal box guitar, tin can wind chimes, homemade confetti crayons, rain sticks, a bread tag village, a cereal box puppet theater, paper beads, milk and vinegar plastic models of the Earth, tissue paper spring lanterns, a milk carton bird feeder, and backyard safari binoculars made from toilet paper rolls. The projects allow kids to creatively reuse common household items to learn about reducing waste and protecting the planet.

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Upcycling/Re-purposing Projects for Earth Day

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Cereal box guitar


What you'll need: Cereal box, paper towel roll or spaghetti box, rubber bands, two crayons
or two cut drinking straws
For an outside-of-the-box take on a musical instrument, up-cycle an empty cereal box. You
can customize the look of your guitar with paint, craft paper, photos, stickers, washi tape—
you name it. Your little one can use anything that inspires them to jazz up and personalize
their new guitar.

Tin can wind chimes


What you'll need: Tin cans of varying sizes, string, something to hang them from (wire hoop
from and old lampshade, a needlepoint hoop, a wire clothes hanger), hammer and nail
Finding a crafty use for all those empty tin cans will be music to your ears. Here is a simple
and colorful way to put a new spin on the thing that's probably taking up the most space in
your recycle bin. If you don't have string or anything to hang the chimes from, make a mini
drum kit out of the cans and hand your kids some wooden spoons to bang out some beats.

Homemade confetti crayons


What you'll need: Old crayons, muffin tin or silicon candy molds
Give all of those broken crayons new life. Chances are a fair amount of your kiddo's crayons
have seen better days. Instead of tossing those busted and broken nubs, melt them down
into colorful new works of art that not only serve a purpose but look cool, too!

Rain sticks
What you'll need: Paper towel roll, aluminum foil, rice, paper, tape or rubber bands
Bring the outside in with these easy, homemade rain sticks. This kid-friendly craft makes a
real rain stick that sounds so much like the real thing it will have you thinking Mother Nature
came inside for a visit.

Bread tag village


What you'll need: Bread tags, construction paper, glue
Who knew bread tags could be so cute? Take it up a notch and come up with
a story or a fairy tale about who lives in these wee houses and what they do
in them.
Cereal box puppet theater
What you'll need: Cereal box or any other box, paint,
construction paper, glue
Most kids would eat cereal for breakfast, lunch, and dinner
if they could. Put those boxes you're burning through to
good use with an imagination-sparking puppet theater.

Paper beads
Turn those old catalogs and magazines into something
new. Paper beads are simple to make and can really be
made of any paper you have handy—even junk mail. Once
they are made you can string them on anything—yarn,
twine, or even torn pieces of fabric.

Milk and vinegar plastic


What you'll need: Milk, vinegar, Sharpie markers, a round
cookie or biscuit cutter or a plastic cup cut up as a mold
Kids can make their very own plastic models of Earth with little
more than vinegar, milk, and some permanent markers.

Tissue paper spring lanterns


What you'll need: Tissue paper, a jar, Modge Podge or a 50/50
solution of water and white glue, a candle or LED light.
If you don't have tissue paper, you can color a coffee filter with a
marker and let the wet glue help the colors bleed to get the
stained-glass effect.
Milk carton bird feeder

What you'll need: Milk carton, sticks, glue, paint or stickers for decorating

Welcome in the songbirds of spring and let your kids see nature up close with a bird feeder
made from last week's milk carton. Milk cartons make for so many fun crafts, including city
towers and race cars—but this milk carton bird house is perfect for celebrating
sustainability while also giving a bird's-eye view as to why we honor Earth Day to begin with.
If you're more of a milk jug kind of family, there's a tutorial for that, too.

Backyard safari binoculars


What you'll need: Two toilet paper
rolls, glue or staples, paint or
construction paper, yarn or twine

What better way to investigate all the


Earth has to offer than with some
fresh new binoculars, made from rolls
from all that toilet paper we stocked
up on? Whatever design you go with,
send the kids out in the yard for a
nature-filled scavenger hunt where
they can view the world through their
new spectacles.

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