Recycle City
Creating a mini city from recycled items!
Making Recycle City
This is one of my absolute favorite projects to do, especially if you have multiple days you want to fill with creative kid projects!
You could take a day to work on your city if you would like, or weeks!
What You’ll Need:
Cardboard (for base)
Recycled boxes, tubes, cartons, anything you like! Be creative! Almost anything can be turned into a home, shop, or city building!
Tape and glue
Black vinyl tape or black duct tape
Paint
Instructions:
Gather all of your building materials together
Paint, decorate, and create each building. We used toilet paper rolls for chimneys, tissue boxes and milk cartons to make multistory buildings. The sky is the limit on what you can create! Think outside the box! heh… get it? Okay, okay.. moving on..
Let any painted or glued together buildings dry, and start making the base of your city. We used flattened cardboard boxes and extra astroturf that was on hand. If you are using flattened cardboard boxes, arrange them how you would like, and tape them all together.
Once taped together, paint the cardboard green for grass.
Once the paint is dry, you can take your black vinyl tape or black duct tape to make the streets. Tape where you want the streets to be and paint white dashed lines to make it all come together.
Let the paint for the street dry
By this time your building should be ready to place around your city! We gathered all of our figurine friends, mini cars, and train set to add to our city!
The best part is playing with everything once finished! And remember, you can always add to your city!
Happy creating! Tag us in your posts on instagram to share your creations! We love seeing all of the wonderful creations you make!