Teach Kids to Love and Care for Earth Recycle Craft! At Planetpals we believe if you teach kids to appreciate beautiful things on Earth, they will learn to love and care for it! It's that simple.

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Make A Scene Of A Favorite Place

Great craft for a school lesson plan, girl scouts, boy scouts or home project,

Have children talk about favorite places: The beach, a special camping spot, summer camp, a back yard forest, the city, their room, whatever. Have them discuss what they like about it and then recreate it in a three dimensional showcase.

Tools:

1. Shoe box
2. Glue
3. Tape
4. Scissors
5. Brown paper shopping bag
6. See additional ideas below
7. Your imagination

Directions:

• Start with a Shoe box
• You can paint it or cover it with a recycled brown bag
• Use the cover as a base
• Turn the shoe box bottom sideways and sit it inside the base
• Have children decide on a favorite place: beach, camping, forest, their room, whatever
• Make a drawing and figure out what recycled objects they can use to create the scene
• In this case we used stones, tissue paper, recycled schoolwork (the other side) and some toys;

Here is the list of items we used:

• Clouds : school paper
• Water : Aqua tissue paper
• Sky: Blue paper
• Sun: Half of a ball (you could use a bottle top!)
• Rocks: Real Stones
• Matchbox people and boats

Options / Ideas:

• Use shredded paper or Easter Basket grass for trees and bushes!
• Make your own drawings or signs
• Draw people
• Add green dyed rice for grass
• Any recycle materials will work--try bottle caps, yogurt cups etc
• Incoroporate Playmobile people, cars or trains!

Other possible materials--paper bags, popsicle sticks, straws, twigs, bottle caps, toilet paper rolls..list goes on