Science projects can be fun with recycled materials. This book combines science and recycling household items like spare spoons and potato chip cans to make a solar hot dog cooker, lava lamp, vinegar rocket, marshmallow shooter, and more. For ages 9 – 15.

The Little Tikes Go Green Playhouse is made from 10% recycled plastic and filled with eco friendly activites; it’s equipped with LED lights powered by a solar panel, a rain barrel for recycling water, a pump sink, a planting box and living roof, and recycling bins.

Give your kids a sense of hands-on recycling with 50 Recycled Craft Projects for Kids. This book includes step by step instructions, with over 400 photos, to make your own musical instruments, puppets, masks, decorations, clothes, games and toys.

A mermaid tail to make their mermaid or merman dreams come true. Have fun gliding in the water like a fish and looking like a mermaid in the pool or ocean with the MerFin, a soft, flexible, and functional mono-fin made from recycled rubber.

With Stack and Scare Blocks, kids can build and create endless monsters with a variety of shapes and patterns. Stack and Scare stacking blocks are made in the USA from sustainable bass wood and painted with non-toxic inks. For ages 3 and up.

Get your creative juices flowing with a tangram puzzle. Fun for all ages, tangrams are tiles that can be configured into thousands of silhouette images like animals and people. Pebbles are a modern version of tangrams made from sustainable bamboo.

Bring a robot to life using recycled materials around your house. Recycled Robots is a book and kit that shows you how to make ten different robots for kids, out of junk. Recommended for ages 8 and up, the book was created by robot expert Robert Malone.

Edo bricks are easy to assemble, life-size, Lego-like, cardboard building blocks for kids to build just about anything. The building blocks are sturdy and they come in multiple colors. The blocks are also made from recycled and recyclable cardboard.