Recycled animal art

Recycled Animal Art: How to create beautiful recycled animal art out of trash and junk material. This is an exciting recycling project.

A broken CD isn't much good to anyone. Unless you're Sean Avery that is. Because while most of us would just throw them in the trash, the South Africa-born, Australia-based artist turns them into various dazzling animal sculptures. He makes them by gluing CD shards to wire mesh frames shaped like different animals, and as you can see from his iridescent animal kingdom, there seems to be no limit to the types of creatures he can create.

Kids and adults alike will enjoy painting these whimsical cardboard animals with brightly colored patterns, and using the free templates to cut the shapes.

Large sculpture of a redshank made by Michelle Reader from reclaimed materials, for the Love London Sculpture Show at London Wetland Centre.

We love an art project to fill up a chilly afternoon, especially one created from the recycling bin! Laurie White shares how to make cute animal portraits.

Here’s a fun craft for kids! Recycle an egg carton into some adorable turtles, caterpillars, and frogs! We can’t decide which animal we like best. The turtles are my favorite, although it’s hard to decide between those and the caterpillar! For this project, you’ll need: Egg cartons Paint – we used acrylic, but tempera paint […]

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If you like paper roll ZOO animals, try this easy paper roll zebra craft. It's great for preschoolers, kindergartners and older kids.

To engage people in your community in creative reuse, a recycled art contest is a great way to inspire people from many ages and backgrounds.