Recycling is essential for the earth; that’s why we need to get our kids on board with it. Here are a few clever ways to make recycling fun for kids that you will love to share with your entire family.
Ever since this blue recycling bin showed up in our front yard, we’ve put it to use.
Clever Ways to Make Recycling Fun for Kids
Introducing recycling to our kids at an early age helps inspire them to be a positive change for our world. Kids who grow up in a home that recycles will often continue on this path well into adulthood, passing this mission to recycle down their kids and so on. I am going to share a few ideas so you can push forward to turning your family into recycling geniuses.
Decorate your Recycle Bins
Most kids love to use their creativity. Consider decorating the recycle bin and labeling it with fun, colorful labels. When kids are a part of the setup for your family to recycle, they are more apt to remember to toss that recyclable item into the proper bin.
Take a Trip to Make Recycling Fun for Kids
Schedule a family field trip to the local recycling center. Call to see if you can do a tour of the recycling center with your kids. A trip like this is a great way to make recycling exciting and allows your kids to see the result of their recycling habits. Help inspire your kids with a visual of how recycling works.
Create one Bag Challenge
Enlist your kids in taking part in the one bag challenge where you all work to recycle so extensively that you only have one bag of real trash per week.
Related: What Are the Benefits of Recycling
Make Recycling a Game
Kids forever love playing games; it doesn’t matter how old they are. Make recycling a fun game in your home by playing “basketball” when you have recycling items piled up. Each family member has a pile of recyclable items and tosses them into the bin. The person with the most shots wins.
Related: Beginners Guide to Going Green
Repurpose Items
Lastly, you can make recycling fun for kids by repurposing recyclable items into handy crafting projects. There are many smart ways you can take old plastic jugs and other things to turn them into bird feeders, storage bins, and other useful items. Make one day a craft day where you repurpose craftily.
There you have it, smart ways to make recycling fun for kids. There are so many ways you can work to encourage a love of recycling within your kids, try these tips today, and enjoy the new journey towards saving the planet one recyclable at a time.
What clever ways to make recycling fun for kids have you come up with?
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Great post! This would be a helpful post.
Thanks for sharing.
Kids love games, I knew I did as a kid so that would always get me to do thing. I’m sure it’s the same now.
I love this post! My daughter is the SeaWorld kid blogger and cares so much about conservation. Recycling is very important and we definitely need to make sure our trash doesn’t end up in the waters to harm animals.
Always make it a game! If kids think they are playing a game, no matter the activity, they are certain to love it.
I still have to remind the people I live with what is recycling and what’s not. My county has changed it several times so it can be confusing. I try to recycle as much as possible because it makes me feel better about helping the planet.
I think I would find a trip to recycling center interesting. I should definitely plan a trip with my kids and we would both benefit.
Love this! What great idea. My kids get the concept of recycling and they do it but its for sure not fun for them! This is helpful!
aw this is awesome! it is so important to recycle and more important to show our children to do the same!
Great tips! I even think this would help make recycling more fun for me and my husband.
Recycling is so important to keep the environment uncluttered. It is a great idea to get kids on board early so they develop good recycling and repurposing habits.
It’s really important that we teach the kids to take better care of our environment as early as possible. These are great ways to make recycling something that they’d enjoy.
I wished that we had a really great recycling program here. These are some awesome tips to get kids involved.
These are some really awesome tips! It’s better to get them into these habits early in life. Recycling can make such an important difference!
Our kids naturally love the world. Knowing that they are making it an even better place to live makes them crazy excited!
Recycling is so beneficial and so important. It is wonderful to involve the kids as well. I try to involve my daughter and teach her how to care for our environment.,
I am one of the world’s worst about recycling and should make myself be better at it! Perhaps I need to start decorating some bins for myself to encourage me to have fun with it too! You’ve definitely hit the nail on the head when it comes to making it fun for kids. Great post!
Love the idea of taking them to the recycling center. It’s so important to start early and develop the habit.
I think a trip to the recycling center is a great idea. That way the kids can see first hand all of the behind the scenes happenings.