Recycling Activity Sheets for Kids (FREE Printable Worksheets)

These free recycling activity sheets for kids are perfect for Earth Day or learning a bit more about looking after our planet.

With seven pages to print these worksheets have plenty to keep the kids busy while they learn to help look after the Earth.

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Free Printable Recycling Worksheets

More and more kids are learning about the importance of looking after our planet, it’s a really important topic for all of us to focus on no matter what our age!

Today I’m sharing some free printables to help your child learn all about recycling.

There are seven activity sheets that you can print which cover recycling, reusing and composting.

As recycling is often a topic that’s looked at as part of Earth Day I’ve also included some of our favourite Earth crafts for kids as well as links to some books about looking after our planet, perfect if this is a subject your child would like to learn more about.

You can also check out more of our favourite printables and crafts you can make using recycled materials in our round up of recycling activities for kids.

Recycling Activity Sheets Contents

In the recycling activity sheets PDF file you will find:

• Recycling sort bin: Cut and paste the items into which recycling bin they should go in.
• Recycle, re-use or compost: circle the items that don’t belong in each group.
• My compost bin: colour the items that can go in the recycling bin.
• Recycling materials: colour in the items that are in the correct group.
• Sort it out: Cat and paste the pictures into the correct bins.
• Recycle vocabulary
• Recycling tracing: trace the line from the item to the recycling bin and colour them in.

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Environmental Books for Kids

Trees Make Perfect Pets by Paul Czajak. This book is a great introduction to environmentalism for kids that aren’t into fact books with it’s sweet story about a girl who wants a pet tree.

One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia by Miranda Paul. I think it’s good for children (and adults!) to see that one person can make a difference and this picture book tells the story of Isatou Ceesay who began a movement to recycle the plastic bags that were polluting her environment

Kids Fight Plastic by Martin Dorey. I love the illustrations in this book by Martin Dorey who started the two minute beach clean movement. The book is full of simple ways that kids can help save the planet and become a two minute superhero.

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Earth Crafts for Kids

If you’re learning about our planet why not try out of these simple Earth crafts to make or check out our free printable recycling symbol template which is great for some simple crafts too.

Use old magazine to make this paper plate Earth craft.

Make this easy torn paper Earth craft using our free printable template.