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
Where 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