20+ Toys & Crafts You Can Make from Recyclables

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Save money, save the Earth and entertain your kids simultaneously — sounds like winners all around to me! If there’s one thing I hear frequently from my four-year-old it’s that she doesn’t have anything todo, despite our toy cupboard, bookshelves, and craft basket all seem to be brimming with possibilities. But if I give her some recycling, scissors, and tape, she can entertain herself for an eternity.

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There’s seems to be something about trash that kids are just attracted to. Perhaps because it’s different from the usual paper and play-dough, or perhaps it’s the open-endedness, but there’s something about cardboard and plastic bottles that gets my kid excited. Here are twenty-two of my favorite ideas for creating something out of nothing, courtesy of the inter webs:

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16.Cardboard Winter Animals: Mr. Printables
17.Toilet Paper Roll Critters: Studio Wonderdag
18.Cardboard Mountain Bridge: Pink Stripey Socks
19.Cardboard Space Shuttle: Pink Stripey Socks
20.Toilet Paper Roll Characters马:tsutake

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21.DIY Laced Cardboard Handbags: Handmade Charlotte
22.Shoe Box Town: Ocechou via Apartment Therapy
23.Rocketship from a Plastic Bottle: Mollymoo

20+ Toys & Crafts You Can Make from Recyclables

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