Cheap and Easy Crafts for Kids: 9 Recycled Crafts

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nataliegrace

"These are great ideas! Simple science experiments are a fun way to teach kids about science while still having fun."

nataliegrace

"Wow, I am fascinated. I had no idea you could grow geodes!"

msdeb21

"This is a great craft for so many reasons. First of all, I love ice cream and pom poms! But for the kids, it's a matching game, and a chance to play make-believe ice cream shop. I'm looking at my yarn stash today to see what colors I have that look like ice cream colors. Then I get to make pom poms!"

msdeb21

"I will use this craft project with my preschool group. They enjoy making things with my scraps of paper and fabric. I have the craft sticks and lots of paper and googly eyes. I think I'll pick up some bright solid color cupcake liners from the dollar store, and let the kids create. They will use their imaginations and probably name their monsters."

msdeb21

"This is a fun visual science project that my pre-school group will love. I'll save it for Halloween, and make it sparkly and spooky! I will definitely let them shine flashlights on these. I always wanted a lava lamp, but never had one! I don't think the pre-schoolers will know what a lava lamp is."

Natasha, Amelie's House

I am a 42 year old mum of two looking after my kidlets, but also running a successful (and very busy) cake decorating business.

I have always been creative; both my parents are artists, and I studied Graphic Design, although I specialized in illustration. After a year of working as an illustrator, I fell into textile design, first working for a studio in Manchester before moving to work for the new London office of a New York fashion design company, where I rose to become the Assistant Art Director.

While on maternity leave I needed a design challenge that would fit around my new life as a mother, and I turned to my childhood love of baking. After spending a lot of time searching the internet for gorgeous cakes and happening upon various amazing blogs, I decided to start Amelie's House. My two kidlets bore the brunt of having a creative mother and so were my guinea pigs for various craft and baking experiments that I then started to post.

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