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Teach Kids to Love and Care for Earth Recycle Craft!
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Make your puppet--with a slew of themes to choose from! Use a soda can or a toilet paper tube. Find recycled items to decorate it.
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Recycle Tuna Can Ornament
At home or at school this craft is cool!
Make your very own ornament from recycled items.
Recycle Everyday Objects
Great craft for a school lesson plan, girl scouts, boy scouts or home project,
Have children make an ornament from recycled materials of many kinds. This time we used a can, and other everyday objects to make a tree ornament
Make Santas, snowmen, snow scene, ginger house...
Tools Needed for this puppet:
- Tuna or sardine can--
- Glue or Glue gun
- Cork
- Felt
- Small Buttons or beads for clothing
- Thin Ribbon or fabric scrap
- Cotton or packing beads
- Paints
- Your imagination
Directions For Ornament
- Paint the inside of the can with background (we did blue for sky cans white fop ground)
- For the snowman body we cut the cork in
- Paint cork
- Glue cork in
- Add nose, eyes,
- Add beads or buttons on body
- Tie ribbon scarf
- Add felt, beads or buttons for the hat
- Add Cotton or packing beads for snow
- Tie and glue a ribbon around the can to hang it
- Let it dry!
Directions For Ornament
- We drew the face on on the above snowman.
- You could line it with fabric, paper or felt
- You can hang it with string instead of ribbon
- Use solid cork for santa
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