Programs are free of charge for Cuyahoga County residents. Children or the organization will need to collect listed materials. A storybook or historical background on the project will be shared as well as a brief review of reduce, reuse and recycle.

Kite Making
Age: first grade and up
Time: 90 minutes
Materials: used dry cleaner bags and a stick or toilet paper roll
Kites can be designed by each child or a template can be used depending upon age group.

Paper Mache Bowls
Age: third grade and up
Time: 90 minutes
Materials: lightweight paper bags and newspaper
Children will create look alike ancient pottery. This activity can involve two sessions for creating the bowl allowing several days for it to dry and then decorating it.

Gargoyles
Age: third grade and up
Time: 90 minutes
Materials: carry out coffee trays, egg cartons, cardboard
Children will build a medieval stone like sky creature for your castle. This activity can involve two sessions for creating the gargoyle allowing several days for it to dry and then decorating it.

Plastic Bag Blankets
Age: fifth grade and up
Time: 60 minutes
Materials: 500-1,000 bags collected for one blanket
Making a blanket out of used grocery bags is a whole group activity. Children will create chains and link them together to make a blanket. It will several hours for a group to make one blanket.

Newspaper Baskets
Age: second grade and up
Time: 90 minutes
Materials: newspaper
Children will make a small basket to hold collectibles.

Litter Folk Art Quilt
Age: kindergarten and up
Time: 60 minutes
Materials: scrap paper and/or litter that was collected.
Children will work as a group to create a quilt representing what people discard.

Rainsticks
Age: Kindergarten and up
Time: 60 minutes
Materials: Each child will need a cardboard tube from wrapping paper, used mail tubes or large printer paper. Several paper towel tubes could also be connected.
If we are having a dry summer, have the children make rainsticks to call on the rain.

Solar Cooking
Age: third fifth grade and up
Time: 60 minutes
Materials: Children will work together to build their own solar oven out of a pizza box and cook on it. Each child will need a pizza box unless the group wants to work together on several solar ovens. Afterwards the children can cook s'mores, mini pizzas, hot dogs or cookies.