Start collecting those egg cartons, bathroom tissue rolls, paper grocery bags, plus lots more! Most of all, put your imagination to work. It's amazing what interesting creations you can come up with when you use a pile of egg cartons and simple art supplies. It can keep you busy for hours! These books will give you plenty of inspiration to start crafting green.
1. Creating by Recycling
This book includes such projects as juggling balls, a "FotoFish" picture frame, and a "letter-perfect pencil holder."
2. Learn and Play the Recycle Way
Over 100 homemade teaching tools were designed by authors Rhoda Redleaf and Audrey Robertson and solicited from centers, homes, and trainers. Children will love helping to make fun things like drams from coffee cans, cactus gardens from peanut butter jars, and planters from plastic bottles.3. Earth-Friendly Crafts for Kids
From easy toys and great gifts to wonderful things to decorate a room, these 50 projects give children a terrific way to recycle and feel creative at the same time. Everything is arranged in order of material—plastic, metal, paper, fabric, glass, and miscellaneous goods.4. Trash to Treasure
Create extraordinary handmade gifts and decorative accents by recycling everyday household items such as detergent boxes, wallpaper scraps, chipped dishes, and more. This book is packed with 125 economical, earth-friendly projects -- each accompanied by clear, easy-to-follow instructions, and radiant full-color photographs.5. Earth-Friendly Wearables
This entertaining book combines arts and crafts with environmental awareness. Contains 30 imaginative projects for making fun items such as belts, bracelets, bags and hats out of reusable materials. Packed with illustrations, easy-to-follow instructions plus facts and tips on how to help conserve our natural resources.6. Crafts from Junk
Provides patterns and detailed instructions for more than a dozen crafts made from item you would normally throw away.7. Clever Crafting With Flea Market Finds
Inexpensive "treasures" can be transformed into unique accents for the home with this collection of easy decorating ideas! Clever Crafting With Flea Market Finds is the latest edition in the Clever Crafter series, which features fun and thrifty ideas for the home. The reader will enjoy over 75 exciting new projects that make the most of items found at flea market and garage sales.