How To Make A Recycled Robot
"Crafting is such wonderful bonding time, and also a good time to teach children lessons. Like the importance of taking care our planet. Recycling and upcyling are a couple of ways to do this. Plus, easy recycled and upcycled crafts for kids allow you to craft and stay within a budget, since most of your supplies are things that you would’ve discarded otherwise! It can be such a rewarding and memorable crafting experience. I also love recycled crafts because it’s a great way to use your imagination, and teaches resourcefulness, working with what you already have!"
Primary TechniqueGeneral Crafts
Materials List
- Cereal box
- Something for weight (old towel, bag of dried beans, newspaper, etc)
- Aluminum foil
- paper towel tube
- 2 vegetable or soup cans (legs)
- 1 large can (head)
- Various plastic and metal lids
- 2 bottle caps
- metal nut
- 2 silver pipe cleaners
Instructions
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To give the robot’s body some weight, first you’ll want to put something inside the cereal box. I used an old sweatshirt. An old towel, a bag of dried beans, lots of wadded up newspaper, anything like that will work!
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Wrap the cereal box in aluminum foil and use tape to secure.
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Use a craft knife to carve holes in the side of the box for the arms.
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Cut the paper towel tube in half, and wrap both halves in aluminum foil.
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Insert the tubes into the sides of the cereal box.
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Wrap each of the cans in aluminum foil.
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Use various lids to decorate the front of the cereal box.
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Glue lids onto the large can for eyes; then glue bottle caps to the lids for the pupils.
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Glue a metal nut on as the nose.
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Draw several lines onto white paper, then draw a single line through those lines. Use scissors to cut mouth from the lined paper and tape to the tin can.
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Wrap silver pipe cleaner around a pencil, then glue inside the large can.
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Glue the head and legs to the cereal box to complete your robot.