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*Reuse
Rainbow Crayons
Line a muffin tin with aluminum foil liners. Place broken crayons in the muffin tin and place in the oven to melt (200-250 degrees). When the crayons have melted remove from the oven and let cool. Great crayons to color with.
*Art
MakingFriends-Crafts from Recycled Products
Create crafts from empty jars, old paper, CDs, and more.
Makestuff Recycling
Craft ideas from egg cartons to newspaper and much more.
Make Your Own Paper
Create paper using recycled materials.
*Science
Recycle Newspaper
Materials Needed:: newspaper (lots), water, several aluminum, containers, rolling pin, strainer, large spoon or scoop
1. Shred newspaper and put into 1 or 2 containers about 4"
deep depending on how many children will be participating
in this activity
2. Add water to cover the paper
have children mix with hands until consistency of oatmeal.
This takes quite a long time so the children can take
turns.
3. Take one aluminum container and turn it upside down.
4. Strain about 2 scoops of newspaper "goop" and place on
bottom of aluminum pan
5. Roll it out to cover the whole pan
6. Blot with newspaper to get as much water out as
possible
7. Keeping a piece of newspaper on top, turn container
over and carefully peal container off the now thin layer
of newspaper goop.
8. Lay it out to dry over 1-2 days. It will be paper
when it is dried and you can carefully peel it off the
newpaper. Contributed by : Noel
CANdemonium
Recycle cans to make a BONKO for great music.
Recycle (grade 1)
Experiments on recycling
*Color Pages
Squigly's
Color page on recycling, and more.
Reduce Reuse Recycle
Color pages with information.
*Print & Play
Recycle Bingo
Print and play a recycling theme bingo game.
Planet Protectors Club for Kids
Use your detective skills to help protect the earth! Solve these mysteries and you'll learn how you can take care of the environment too!
*Play Online
I Don't Want To Clean My Room
Help Anita clean her room and learn how to recycle
and reuse objects.
Free the Beach
Free the Beach and save the environment by
dragging the litter to its proper recycling bin.
What's Wrong With This Picture
*Sites
to See
PlanetPals
An Educational and intercative resource on the Earth.
Designed especially for children.
EPA Environmental Kids Club
Lots of fun and interesting things to read and do to learn about the environment.
The Recycle Guys
A
public education campaign. The kids section has an activity book, color pages, and more.
What On Earth Can You Do With A Jelly Jar?
EPA Poster to print for your room (pdf)
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