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10 Crafts Using Recycled Materials

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Got junk around your house? Turn it into art! 

Here are some craft ideas that use recycled materials and are fun to make. And if this is still not enough, you can find plenty of books with recycled craft ideas in our catalog!

  • Bookmarks from greeting cards

  • Mancala game from egg carton and dried beans (or jelly beans, beads, pebbles, etc.)

  • Wind Powered Car

  • I Spy Bottle from small objects around the house, a plastic bottle and rice (or sand or other small grain)

  • Have milk that’s about to go bad? Try this experiment to make plastic milk beads and ornaments

  • Robot hand

  • Seismograph

  • Marble run

  • Back Scratcher

  • Cotton ball launcher

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