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Simple Ornaments Made with Recycled Materials

December 16, 2011 by Sheryl Cooper

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I once worked with a teacher who was a genius at using recyclables. She amazed me at the ideas she   came up with! Each year she would come up with simple ornaments made with recycled materials. Many years later, I hope these ornaments still adorn those family Christmas trees!

For this particular ornament, we used recycled plastic lids and Christmas wrap. Simple, right? Read on to see just how easy these are to make!

Simple Ornaments Made with Recycled Materials

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Preparing this activity:

Place a small hole at the edge of each plastic lid. Make a loop with some string of your choice. Cut out pieces of recycled gift wrap. You can add some stickers or foam pieces, too. Whatever you happen to have on hand!

You can just just about any very small objects. We chose santa penguins that were recycled from tissue paper after last Christmas. We also had some glittery foam stars in our supply drawer.

 Simple Ornaments Made with Recycled Materials

Inviting the children to create their ornaments:

Place glue in small containers and have the children pour it into the plastic lid.
Simple Ornaments Made with Recycled Materials
Our toddlers and preschoolers loved pouring the glue into the lid. This was, of course, the favorite part of the activity!
Simple Ornaments Made with Recycled Materials
Let them dry thoroughly.
Simple Ornaments Made with Recycled Materials
After they dried, we added them to their Christmas gift bags along with their other ornaments.
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Make sure to wrap your child’s gift in a handmade gift bag!

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Love to use recycled or free items for your projects? Please share in the comment section what your favorite activities have been!
Simple Ornaments Made with Recycled Materials

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About Sheryl Cooper

Sheryl Cooper is the founder of Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds, a website full of activities for toddlers and preschoolers. She has been teaching this age group for over 25 years and loves to share her passion with teachers, parents, grandparents, and anyone with young children in their lives.

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  1. Beth (www.livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.com)

    December 16, 2011 at 12:39 pm

    This is super cute & CLEVER!! What fun!! I would love for you to come link up at my TGIF LInky Party – http://livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.com/search/label/Linkey%20Parties – you always have such cute stuff I know my readers would love to see!!
    Merry Christmas,
    Beth =-)

  2. Sheryl

    December 17, 2011 at 11:51 pm

    Thanks Beth! And I love your website!

  3. Katie

    December 28, 2011 at 11:55 pm

    Oh my goodness how creative! These turned out SO cute!! Thanks for sharing at Thrifty Thursday!! Hope you had a fantastic Holiday Season!

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