Would you like to give a fun, original gift that also helps the environment? Recycled materials are the perfect opportunity to unleash your imagination and create a bunch of toys. Cardboard boxes, plastic bottle caps, straws, cork—anything you can find around the house can help you get creative and make personalized, inexpensive, and lots of fun toys for children.
By doing this, you'll also be teaching your children the importance of recycling and reusing.By the way! If you enjoy crafts, we also have a fun post about how to recycle old jeans step by step. Recycled toy ideas for children If you also want to give waste a second life and have a lot of fun designing and crafting with the little ones, in this post we propose 7 ideas for making toys with recycled materials. Join Planet First! Planet First!
An airplane made with toilet paper rolls
The first thing you need to design a recycled airplane is to get hold of a few toilet paper rolls or Take two or four rolls of kitchen paper that you have stored away, depending on the size, and cut them in half to draw two ovals with a pencil (one should be twice the size of the other). Then, take a paintbrush and tempera paint to paint each of the ovals you cut out, which will form the airplane's wings, in the color you want. Next, take a fairly long roll of kitchen paper and paint it (don't forget to add the windows). It's important to make four holes on each side with a craft knife so you can attach the wings. Then get creative and fill it with color, pretty designs, and stickers to give it a much nicer touch.
Cardboard Foosball Table
Another idea we propose in this post is to make a foosball table. This recycled toy is very simple, but very original and fun. You only need a shoebox, some clothespins, and some skewers or long toothpicks.
Take the shoebox without the lid and make a couple of holes on each side to create the goals.The goalsThen make other small holes on each side to fit the toothpicks.
Since it's an ideal toy for two children, four long sticks, two for each, will do. Then, turn the clothespins into players, personalize them, and place them on the sticks. And just like that, you'll have a foosball table made from recycled materials for the little ones in the house. A bowling game If you're not very good at crafts, but you'd like to make a toy from recycled materials for children, we suggest a bowling game. You only need to collect 6 or 9 Actimel or milkshake bottles. Remove all the labels, paint, and decorate each bottle a different color. Then glue a ping-pong ball to the top of each jar, which you should have previously painted as well. Finally, grab a ball and have fun with your kids!
A Cardboard Domino Set
If you want to have a great time with your children and enjoy a fun-filled afternoon, you can create a recycled board game as fun as dominoes, ideal for children between 6 and 12 years old. To do this, simply take a piece of cardboard, trace the outline of each piece, and then paint them with black acrylic paint. Add the dots and lines of the pieces in white, and your homemade dominoes will be ready! A Recycled Toy Car With a cardboard egg carton and four bottle caps, you can design a fun toy car. The first thing you should do is take the egg carton and paint it. Depending on the size you want the car to be, you can cut it or not. If you want a fire truck, for example, choose an egg carton with at least 8 eggs. And if you want a British bus, glue two egg cartons together, one on top of the other, to form the two floors of the bus ;) Next, take as many polystyrene balls as you have passengers in your vehicle and bring them to life by decorating and painting them. Finally, take the four plastic bottle caps and glue them on to add wheels to the car made from recycled materials.
Recycled Puppet
We think this is a great idea for giving a second life to toilet paper rolls and plastic bottle caps.To create your own puppet, take a toilet paper roll and paint it the color you want. Then, design the face of the character or the head of the animal you want to represent on paper or cardboard. Glue it to the top of the roll, and you'll have the body and head attached.
Next, take four pieces of yarn or string and glue them to the body to create the limbs. Don't forget to glue the bottle caps to the end of each limb. Finally, add four threads to each limb and tie them to two straws in an "X" shape to create the control mechanism for the character. You're sure to have a great time inventing stories! Kids will love it!
Cork Snakes
If you want to know how to make an original recycled toy, pay attention because you're going to love our last idea. Collect all the bottle corks you can, and when you have a few, cut each one into three equal pieces. Then, make a hole in each piece of cork with an awl. Thread red yarn through each of the holes, just like you would when making a beaded necklace, and add a knot at the beginning and end to keep it from slipping off.
Don't forget the head.head. For that, we recommend taking a whole cork, adding eyes with a marker or stickers, and letting the yarn stick out a little to imitate the snake's tongue.
As you can see, there are tons of ideas for making toys with recycled materials that, besides being very economical, will help the environment. If you love crafts or would like to spend some quality time with your children creating and imagining... what are you waiting for to choose one of these ideas?
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