FOR KIDS

Videos

  • What Can I Recycle?
  • How to Prepare Your Home Recyclables - Republic Services (for 4-5 yo’s)
  • How Recycling Works (for 6-9 yo’s)
  • Going Green Song (Reduce, Reuse Recycle)
  • WonderGroveKids Recycle

 

Interactive Online Games

  • Captain Cullet (Glass Recycling information and curriculum resources for school)
  • Climate Kids (NASA’S climate change website focusing global warming, how it affects our oceans, carbon’s role, what can we do, etc.)
  • Recycle City (EPA’s interactive game to show how a city can recycle)
  • ROSCOE (Children’s Environmental Education from the Steel Recycling Institute)
  • Exploring the Environment
  • Planet Pals (kid’s environmental activities)
  • Glass Recycling Guide for Kids
  • National Geographic Recycle Roundup
  • I Want To Be Recycled
  • EPA Recycle City
  • Recycle Room
  • PBS Sid the Science Kid Cleanup

 

Recycled Crafts for Kids

  • Craftbits (We were initially attracted to their chalkboard made from old cardboard but they’ve got several other innovative projects worth checking out!)
  • Decorative Arts and Crafts Resources (great resources for art projects, including a recycling game!)
  • Green American (Information about the safety/toxicity of art supplies)
  • Imagination Factory’s Trash Matcher (Arts & crafts projects using reusable materials)
  • Kinder Art (Recycling lessons and activities using a wide variety of reusable materials)
  • Litterbug Craft
  • Recycled Bird Feeder
  • Toilet Paper Roll Helicopter Craft
  • Plastic Bottle Piggy Bank
  • Plastic Bottle and CD Upcycled Vase
  • List of 21 Recycled Crafts

 

Books

  • Recycle! A Handbook for Kids by Gail Gibbons
  • Recycling is Fun by Charles Ghigna
  • Image result for kids learningWhere Does the Garbage Go? by Paul Showers
  • Don’t Throw That Away! by Lara Bergen
  • The Great Big Green Book by Mary Hoffman
  • I Can Save the Earth!: One Little Monster Learns to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle by Alison Inches
  • The Berenstain Bears Go Green by Jan and Mike Berenstain
  • Why Should I Recycle? by Jen Green