Mr. and Mrs. Green are made using wooden pegs and acrylic paints, hot glue and fabric scraps with their eco-friendly, energy efficient, recycled toilet paper roll car. This family knows all about helping to save the environment!  Â
Cosmic Crafts Celebrate Earth Day every day by joining the voyage of the trash-ship Enterprise. Its ongoing mission: to create delightful playthings from household junk, to confine its operations to a discarded bookcase, and to boldly recycle what no one has recycled before. In other words, gather all those things you’ve been saving in your […]
Harness the power of the sun to recycle old and broken crayons into new ones. Peel your crayons and sort them by color family into small plastic cups.  Nestle the cups into a nest made from aluminum foil (bonus points for using leftover foil!) and cover with plastic wrap. Set out in the sun on a […]
 Obtain at least 2 clear plastic containers (35mm film canisters, herb jars, etc). The two containers should be the same size. Place a small pompom or other small object inside one of the containers. It should be able to be dumped out easily without sticking. Invert the second container on top with the open […]
Ziploc bags glue cardboard scissors magazine/photographs of animals stickers markers 20″ shoelace, 25″ ribbon or cording Cut cardboard to fit inside Ziploc bag. Decorate cardboard with pictures, stickers, drawings and words. Put inside bag and “zip” closed. Repeat until 2-5 “pages” can be assembled. Punch holes along edge of pages and thread ribbon or cord […]
Large cardboard box Scissors Pencil Assorted cereal, cookie, and pasta boxes Colored tape Glue Clear Con-Tact paper With the scissors, cut the flaps off of the large cardboard box. Turn the box bottom up. Then, make an opening for your child’s legs by drawing an arch on one of the longer sides and cutting it […]
Everyone knows you can’t run a space station without them. several small boxes aluminum foil pipe cleaners bottle tops pasta box colored tape Use scissors to remove the back of a small box, as shown. Cover it with aluminum foil. Use pipe cleaners to attach bottle-top knobs. We stacked several boxes and used a pasta […]
Kids can haul loads up and down in this berry basket elevator. 1 plastic berry basket 2 strands of silver cord (one 2 feet long, one 4 feet long) 1 plastic key chain clip 3 plastic clothes hanger clips Cross the cords over the bottom of the basket, weave each strand up one side, and […]
