Tailor Made Father's Day Gifts From Recycled Materials

Planetpals Favorite Collection of Recycle Craft Ideas for Dad For Father's Day That Anyone Can Do!

Make Father's Day even more special with a talior made gift that can be fun or even useful as well as eco-friendly!

Tell a story about your father with a card that encompasses some of his favorite objects and photos.  Make a custom designed tool jar or fishing box. Award him a trophy for his special talents!  All these projects are doable at any age and for any level of expertise.

Have fun and be green! 

Fathers Day Recycle Crafts:

Mini Tool Boxes from Recycled Tins

Simple idea-paint them one color or paint a design. Just an old tin (any size) and a handle.

Recyle Trophy Cup 

Lots of fun for any special person made from cups and paper rolls. "World's Best Mom" "World's Best Dad" "World's Best Brother" or "Best Soccer Player"."World's Best Planetpal" Possibilities endless and so cute!

Handmade Card from Recycled Materials

Start with recycled paper , card or make your own paper from recycled paper. Add mom or dad's favorite buttons, trinkets, trip mementos, old keys, tools, old jewelry and photographs. Make it meaningful.

Make a Recycle Treasure or Tool Jar! 
Planetpals Exclusive! 

Many versions. Unique Ideas, how to instructions, samples. Make a treasure jar for holidays, mothers day, fathers day, everyday. Simple and Easy.

 

A Key (Chain) That Will Stay Close to Dad's Heart!This one is shrinkydink. But use recycled materials, trace hand onto recycled paper or cardboard, reduce in a copier, then finish this great craft: Paint it. Decorate it. Laminate it. One hand for each of Dad's treasured kids

 

Dad Bags for Father's Day Lots of fun for any special mom and dad. (Add buttons, flowers and bows for mom). Make a gift and put it in a home made Bag. Try to use recycled materials to decorate your bag, too!

Wrap it! Make Your Own Boxes 

Patterns and ideas to make your own boxes from recycled boxes plus recycle gift wrap ideas

 

For more Father's Day and Everyday recycle craft ideas such as paper mache, paper making, gardening etc go to Planetpals Craft Pages.  

Or Check out PLANETPALS Pinterest Boards:  DIY Green Gift Wrap and Cards and DIY Green Gifts.

 © Judith Gorgone Planetpals.com

The Incredible Edible Easter Egg

 Fun Ways To Recycle Plastic Eggs

Easter is over.  How many ways can we resurrect those Plastic Easter Eggs?

Love Earth Recycle Plastic

Of course, we can save them and reuse them next year.  But what else? Here are some creative and fun recycle craft ideas to use plastic eggs. Please, remember to use recycled materials to decorate them whenever possible!

Egg Shape Chalk

 

Plastic  Egg and Egg Carton Game

Add caption

Egg Cup Tea Party 

 

Egg-phabet Game 

Egg Wreath

Egg Tub Activity for Preschoolers

Egg Snake

plastic egg snake pull toy

Egg Bugs 

Eggimals 

Egg-liens

For more recycle crafts and fun food crafts for holidays, Earthday or everyday see Planetpals crafts pages.

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The Incredible Edible Easter Egg

April Marks Easter And That Means Eggs!

Here is a fun list of egg-citing ideas and facts.  Everything you ever wanted to know about eggs for Easter and every day.

Fun Ideas for decorating eggs:

10 Fun ideas to help you reuse and recycle plastic eggs:

How to make non toxic natural dyes for eggs from Planetpals

plus this handy egg dye chart:

How healthy are eggs?  Check this infographic from maisiaosiao.com.

How to Boil an Egg Infographic Did you know?

Need more healthy Easter ideas?  See Planetpals Green Spring Journal  

So much egg fun makes us egg-static!  Hope you feel the same.

Have a green holiday!

Teach Kids To Be A Planetpal This Earth Hour

Let An Hour Without Power Last A Lifetime!

Watch Planetpals Earth Hour Video:

Here, at Planetpals, we believe that Earth Hour should be just the beginning. We want you to think about the energy you use every day after that.

When Is Earth Hour?

Earth Hour is held on the last Saturday of March each year, from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. local time.  This year it is being held worldwide on March 27.

What Is Earth Hour?

Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia when 2.2 million homes and businesses turned their lights off for one hour to make their stand against climate change.

Only a year later and Earth Hour had become a global conservation movement with more than 50 million people across 35 countries participating. The numbers have increased every year! Soon the whole world will participate.

Global landmarks such as the, Sydney Harbour Bridge, The CN Tower in Toronto, The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, and Rome’s Colosseum, all stood in darkness, as symbols of hope for a cause that grows more urgent by the hour.

What Can You And Your Kids Do?

We suggest you involve the kids in Earth Hour by attending an event or doing it at home.  Plan it ahead of time.  Make it an annual event that you all look forward to. We suggest No DSS, leapfrogs or Ipods...just good old fashioned entertainment. Let them learn a little about what life was like without energy.

• Hold an annual "Earth Hour Party"!
• If it's warm enough cook out
• Plan a Cold dinner and get everyone involved in planning and making it
• Try playing board games by lantern and radio
• Do an Earth craft
• Teach them about energy, how we use it, discuss how to use it more wisely
• Have them research life before "lights" and talk about what they learned
• Discuss modern inventions effected by energy and talk about the inventors
• Talk about how energy changed society
• Talk about the beautiful things on Earth so that they can appreciate what they do have.  Then give them the tools to learn to care for it!
• For ideas, activities and fun facts go to Planetpals Earthday Pages.

Above all, show them Planetpals Hour Without Power Video (below), so that they will get the message!

© JAG Planetpals.com

June Starts Hurricane Season Be Prepared With This Simple Kit

In North America hurricane season runs from June first though the end of November.  Make sure you are prepared. 

Whatever the emergency event, particularly a hurricane, here is an essential Survival Kit. This kit would also be great just to keep in your car. 

Essentials:

1. Map of your area or to some place you plan to go should you need to leave the area. 
2. Army knife 
3. First Aid Kit
4. Medications
5. Flashlight 
6. Spare Batteries
7. Power Bank 
8. Charging Cords
9. Water Bottles
10. *Add anything else you think you might need, such as money, keys, food, etc. 

Lastly, remember to keep your phone handy!

Free Planetpals Poster For The Classroom For Earthday

Kids will love this poster for Earthday. 

It says it all with a cute and meaningful rhyme: 

I love my world

so blue and green

I do my best

to help keep it clean!

Available at TPT Website PLANETPALS Store:

Remember Recycle, Reduce, Reuse, Rethink!

 

Planetpals New Lesson How To Have A HAPPY WORLD

 

Check out this activity!

We are excited to bring you a new social and emotional activity from Planetpals.com and ikidsclub.org.

An Inspirational social emotional activity creative writing and coloring set teaches life skills. It is a mood changer through activities and poetry! Teaches kids how rethink their mindset and ways to make themselves happy. To make their own rainbows. Enables them to learn how to change their day and find a way to a happy place! The poem is an incentive that makes them think and rethink.

Each exclusive activity is unique and fun. Colorful and Playful. Thought provoking. And will make kids smile whatever age they are! Offers life lesson and Life skills, creative writing and visual arts.

Activities bundled includes:

1. Inspirational Poem
2. Happy Face Coloring Page
3. Make Your Own Happy Place List Writing Lesson
4. Greeting Card Kids Can Color & Send To Someone Special
5. BONUS: Classroom Poster

Love your planet, everything and everyone on it!

April is Earth Month!

If you're a parent with young children, a teacher  at school or homeschool, Planetpals is loaded with lessons and activities to help you inspire students to care for the planet and everyone on it... Earth Month, Earth Day and Everyday,

Check out our PLANETPALS STORE

Inspire a GREENER and HEALTHIER World!

 

Candy Wrapper Crafts That Are So Sweet And Green!

 

Halloween sure can leave us with a lot of things to recycle!  There are costumes, pumpkins, trick or treat bags, pails and of course bags full of candy wrappers.

Here are some fun ideas and creative crafts to help you use the 4"R"s after Halloween.

Recycle Costumes:

• Save it for next year 
• Give it away to a costume swap, thrift or friend
• Kids costumes can be used again for dress up play 
• Stuff it and use it as a decoration in the yard next year
• Sell it!

Recycle Candy Wrappers Crafts:

Candy Wrapper Recycle Craft

• Use for a collage or scrapbooking
• Make a light switch cover
• Make a candy wrapper bookmark
• Make a book cover
• Make a candy wrapper belt
• Weave a candy wrapper bracelet
• Make a gum wapper chain
• Make a candy wrapper wristlet
• Make candy wrapper beads for earings, necklaces etc

Candy wrapper craft ideas that are oh so sweet!

Recycle Pumpkins 

• Compost them
• Use them for Thanksgiving decor
• Make something delicious to eat
• Give them away 
• Town Recycle (check their policies)
• More ideas!

Halloween Candy Bags and Pails

• Reuse them for next year's trick or treating
• Give them to away to a thrift, friend, swap
• Use them for decoration next year 
• Use Pails as containers for small toys 
• Use them as next years festive Halloween party containers and planters
• Use bags to shop

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