10 Creative Activities with Plastic Bottles for Kids
The best time to teach your kids about recycling and upcycling is today!
Recycling is an idea that doesn’t have to be explained in theory immediately. It is sometimes best to show them first what can be done with recyclable materials in your home and let them see the many fun activities with plastic bottles they can bring to life. This can teach them to create something out of nothing and take part in recycling even before learning about its importance to Earth.
Around the home, there’s a good chance we all have recycled materials and plastic water bottles ready to be upcycled. We’ve rounded up some activities with plastic bottles for kids that you both will love and enjoy.
Our activities with plastic bottles list are easy to follow. Most of the tools you need could already be lying around your home! We have sensory bottles, different animal crafts, as well as flower plants and accessories – perfect for kids of all ages!
Water Bottle Fish Project
Do you have old, empty plastic bottles and tissue paper? Then you and your child can easily recreate these plastic bottle craft ideas and give them your own spin using your own colors and materials!
Use clean water bottles and prepare craft glue and a hot glue gun, and some paintbrushes and paint. Finally, get those wiggly eyes from your craft box or purchase some online and add it as the final touches to this water bottle fish to give it that playful look!
Hang them in your kid’s room or simply display them in their play area. They can play pretend fishing and other imaginative games that will also help with their creative development.
Milk Jug Elephant Craft
With a few cuts to your milk jug, you can easily shape it into an elephant! Next, use colored craft papers to turn your milk jug into a colorful elephant! You can also create different versions using different colors or go with an elephant gray color. Whatever you and your kid decide to do with the elephant colors and designs, the sky’s the limit!
Check out more elephant crafts for kids.
Piggy Bank Water Bottle Craft
Whether it’s a bleach bottle, a soda bottle, or any other old bottle you have lying around at home, turning it into a piggy bank for your kid is easy and fun.
This can be made with basic craft materials you already have at home. Design it depending on what your kids like, and then your little one can start saving! An upcycling craft that teaches kids how to save! Now, that’s certainly something we parents should do.
Check out more pig crafts for toddlers.
Bottle Flowers Craft Activities for Kids
Everyone loves flowers, and this water bottle flower craft is the perfect way to have flower displays at home without the withering.
Keep your child’s room colorful and always in a “Spring mood” with this craft idea for kids. It’s easy and uses recycled bottles which is a great way to lighten the trash in the household. Using only old plastic bottles, different colors of paint, wooden skewers, and other basic crafting materials, you and your child can achieve this colorful art project in no time!
Complete instructions on how to create this craft can be found over at Our Kid Things.
Recycled Plastic Soda Bottle Planters
Colorful, cute, and economical are the best words to describe this recycled plastic bottle planter.
Make as many as you need, and plant indoor and outdoor plants that you can line up to create an army of adorable, googly-eyed planters. Now, not only your plants can shine, but your upcycled planters as well.
Place some in window sills, in your children’s study desks, in the garden, or anywhere. These are durable materials anyway, so your plastic bottle planter can surely remain strong and intact whether they are displayed indoors or outdoors.
Plastic Bottle Fairy Night Lights
Keep your kid’s imagination active with these plastic fairly night lights. With an LED tea light, a few silk flowers, and some moss, you and your child can easily create this creative and valuable craft. Display them in your garden or just by the porch so that your kids can see them glow on your lawn when the nighttime comes.
Learn the step-by-step guide over at Crafts by Amanda.
Glowing Stars in a Bottle
This craft is a sensory craft that not only brightens your child’s room like a mini lamp would but can help them relax and sleep better.
The galaxy-like effect of the bottle is what kids can use to imagine the night sky. As they count the glowing stars while in bed, they are sure to slowly enter a calm state that could soon help them fall asleep and have good dreams.
See more over at Kids Activities Blog.
Plastic Bottle Games with DIY Toys
To complete the upcycling process of any reusable materials, it should also be something that kids can actively use. And these DIY toys are just the suitable plastic bottle crafts for that!
One option is a “Shark + Little Fish” duo where your kid plays by catching the small fish with the giant shark’s mouth. But, if your kid doesn’t like the idea of a big fish eating a smaller fish, then you can create a bottle flower that should catch the little bee.
Check out how to create this colorful, fun, and economical DIY toy at Krokotak.
DIY Plastic Bottle Rocket Jet Packs
Is your kid attending a space-themed party soon? Or are they simply just fans of science, space, rockets, and the idea of flying?
Support their imagination about the things they love with this plastic bottle rocket jet pack!
It’s unique, eye-catching, and cool – something that all parents would surely want for their kids to own.
Check how it’s done over at Doodle Craft Blog.
Plastic Bottle Shaker
Is your kid a musical genius? Or do they just love making sounds with random objects at home? Then help them create these plastic bottle shakers!
You can create a shaker or rainmaker by simply filling empty water bottles with different items like rice grains, lentils, beans, and anything else that makes sounds!
Once the items are sealed inside the bottle, decorating the outside is easy. All you have to do is decorate it however you like using colorful paper, stickers, or paint. Let your child’s imagination run free!
