Reduce reuse recycle preschool crafts

Creating preschool recycled crafts is not only fun, but it's also a great way to reuse stuff you have in your home or classroom!

Are you ready for Earth Day?! My boys have always enjoyed learning about helping our Earth. I hope your students will enjoy these math, literacy, and writing themed Earth Day ideas! These Earth Day ideas are from my Earth Day Preschool Pack! You can grab it in my TPT shop! First we made a watercolor Earth. We used black glue (I just added some black liquid watercolor to our regular glue) to outline the Earth. Then we painted! We talked about how Earth is mostly made up of water. We love…

A hands-on look at how paper is made. A perfect way for children to see and feel how paper is recycled. For more information, visit youclevermonkey.com/

ALL ABOUT EARTH Get ready for a month filled with so many fun activities to teach your kiddos all about our planet Earth . I teach this unit in April so it coincides with Earth Day. I’ve loaded up this blog post post with read aloud book ideas, free videos you can share with your students,

You can reuse these recycling anchor charts year after year!

Recycling Paper at Preschool - A hands-on look at how paper is made. Perfect way for preschoolers to see (and feel) how paper is recycled into new paper | you clever monkey

Earth Day is this weekend. I hope each of you has something in mind to reduce your own carbon footprint and give back to Mother Earth (and not just on Earth Day). Our family tries to do our part as well. I absolutely love that my kids not only help with recycling but argue over who gets to put something in the bin. Many of the craft projects I do use items that are recycled or repurposed. The cool term is "upcycling." One of my favorite things to upcycle is toilet paper rolls. We've used…

Recycle markers into watercolors. It is so simple! You will never want to toss a dried-out marker in the trash again. Learn what to do here.

We all recycle paper and plastic and glass in our homes. We all know how important it is to reduce the waste and reuse old objects. Thanks to my city's initiative I even do compost. But I realized that my kids don't really understand the very essence of recycling nor they understand why we do