Recycle Bin Christmas Projects for Kids

Turns out mini Milk Dud boxes make a great row of tiny Copenhagen houses. (I saved these boxes from Halloween, having seen this idea for robots made from mini candy boxes.) I cut out the pieces of paper for the sides, doors, and windows, and Charlie glued them on. The roofs are from cardboard from the recycle bin, decorated with crayon by Charlie.

This elf was inspired by the junk food ornaments blogged here.

Charlie got bored about halfway through gluing each of the pages for this catalog garland, found here. I found the process very Zen.

These trees were made from cones of construction paper and paper grocery sacks, embellished with snowflake confetti. Charlie loves taking them apart and rearranging them.