JUST 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 (Game)

• 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