We offer workshops and field trips to groups of all ages
Field Trips - SPRING 2025
Art of Recycle offers a variety of fun learning activities as part of our field trip programs for students, seniors and our special needs community. We are regularly adding new activities, check back often to see what’s happening. AoR is not accepting field trip requests at this time.
Activities by Age and Grade
Pre-K and Up - All Ages
Middle and High School and Adult Activities
Middle and High School and Adult Activities
Bring imagination to life with AoR's children activities for ages 3 and up.
Perfect crafts enjoyed by everyone.
Middle and High School and Adult Activities
Middle and High School and Adult Activities
Middle and High School and Adult Activities
AoR has the tools to teach curious and growing minds about how art works with fun activities.
Ages 14 and up.
Pre-K to Elementary School Activities
YARN PAINTING
YARN PAINTING
YARN PAINTING
Simple and fun tactile craft activity for young crafters. Perfect activity for children ages 3-6.
$10 per crafter.
PAPER MAKING
YARN PAINTING
YARN PAINTING
Learn how paper is made with natural plant fibers. This is a messy craft, but worth the joy it brings to both young children and adults.
Ages 3 and up.
$10 per crafter.
MINI GARDENS
YARN PAINTING
MINI GARDENS
Mini gardens in a tea cup. Little trinkets, plants and moss to decorate creates hours of entertainment.
Ages 3 and up.
$10 per crafter.
GYOTAKU
I SPY UNDER THE SEA
MINI GARDENS
Learn the japanese art of Fish Printing on rice paper and learn why fish printing is important. Paint an ocean scene with water colors and add your fish print with lifelike ocean rubber stamps.
Great craft for ages 3 and up.
$10 per crafter.
I SPY UNDER THE SEA
I SPY UNDER THE SEA
I SPY UNDER THE SEA
I spy with my little eyes and my little hands, lots of things from under the sea. From sharks teeth to ocean coral, AoR has a touch museum for curious ocean lovers. Play an I Spy game inside our Under the Sea Crafting Room. Paint with sea sponges and craft with sea shells.
This activity is perfect for 3 and up.
$10 per crafter.
SCRAP FABRIC FRUIT
I SPY UNDER THE SEA
I SPY UNDER THE SEA
Simple crafts made from recycled materials are great for youth clubs that are earning badges in recycling. Using scrap fabrics to create small indoor window flags is a great idea for a recycling craft. Flowers for spring, strawberries for summer, pumpkins for fall, and snowmen for winter.
Pre-k and up
GRANDMA’S BUTTON BOX
GRANDMA’S BUTTON BOX
GRANDMA’S BUTTON BOX
Each crafter is given a small tin of buttons that are made from different materials. We will read the button box book that tells about the different types of buttons in Grandma’s button box. There will be a button craft after we explore the buttons. Each child takes their button box home with them.
Ages 4 years and up.
$10 per crafter
STORY WEAVING
GRANDMA’S BUTTON BOX
GRANDMA’S BUTTON BOX
Learn how to make your own loom out of a styrofoam bowl or paper plate. Listen to the story of the garden spider and how it uses its web to catch things, what falls in its web and why it takes its web down everyday while you weave your very own story.
Suited for children five years and up.
$10 per crafter.
TISSUE PAPER FLOWERS
GRANDMA’S BUTTON BOX
TISSUE PAPER FLOWERS
Make a flower or an entire bouquet of flowers from handmade papers and tissue paper. All sorts of bright colors and fun assortment of patterned papers to craft your flowers with.
Fun craft for 5 years and up. No glue involved.
$10 per crafter.
MOSAICS
RAINBOW COLLAGE ART
TISSUE PAPER FLOWERS
Stepping stone or wall art, mosaics can be beautiful masterpieces created by children as young as five years old.
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$10 per crafter.
ROBOT CRAFT
RAINBOW COLLAGE ART
RAINBOW COLLAGE ART
Beep, Ping. Making robots is what's popular. AoR has the tools and the materials to educate young minds in the crafts of recycling odd objects to make fun creations with electronic and battery operated parts.
Ages five and up.
$10 a crafter.
RAINBOW COLLAGE ART
RAINBOW COLLAGE ART
RAINBOW COLLAGE ART
Creating paper collage crafts with scraps of fun cut-outs. Learn about activities that re-use paper scraps to make art. Less waste equals more fun.
Ages five and up.
$10 a crafter
Elementary School to Middle School Activities AND BEYOND
FOSSIL IMPRESSIONS
FOSSIL IMPRESSIONS
FOSSIL IMPRESSIONS
Fossils and Art! We will be exploring a collection of fossils, discussing how fossils are formed, examining the type of creatures found embedded in rock and making impressions out of dough and coffee grounds.
This is a great experience and educational art project for those who love dinosaurs.
$10 per crafter.
BUNNY RACES
FOSSIL IMPRESSIONS
FOSSIL IMPRESSIONS
Creating a wind-up bunny from paper, bottle caps and rubber bands and racing them to see who is the fastest.
This is a great STEM class, teaching students about motion. With experimentation, students can discover what makes their bunnies go faster , what slows them down, and how to adjust their projects to perfect them.
$10 per crafter.
Ocean Sun Catchers
FOSSIL IMPRESSIONS
Botanical Relief in Plaster
Make an ocean themed suncatcher from colorful tumbled glass, glass tiles, and sparkling beads. Hang it in a window or outside. Lots of Sparkle!
Students learn about tying knots and making tools to string beads on elastic.
ALL AGES
$10 per crafter.
Botanical Relief in Plaster
Botanical Relief in Plaster
Botanical Relief in Plaster
Learn how to use modeling clay as a mold to press live flowers into. Then pour quick drying plaster into the mold to create a raised 3D image of the flowers. After the plaster sets, see how watercolor paints enhance the 3D botanical relief.
ALL AGES
$10 per crafter
Wire Art
Botanical Relief in Plaster
Kinetic Wall Art
Learn about the different types and thicknesses of bendable wire, while crafting a wire art sculpture to hang in your window or garden. Learn how to easily twist wire for fun effects, and add beads for extra sparkle.
ALL AGES
$10 per crafter
Kinetic Wall Art
Botanical Relief in Plaster
Kinetic Wall Art
Learn about simple kinetic art using disks and pulleys. After drawing and coloring repeating patterns onto the disks, we can watch how the designs and colors blend together in different patterns by pulling the ends of the attached pulley system.
Fun learning experience for most ages.
$10 per crafter
Activities for Ages TWELVE and Up
NO SEW GNOME
WIZARDING WORLD
WIZARDING WORLD
A perfect craft for crafters of all ages. Make a gnome beanie from a silk sack and plastic fill beads/polyfil.
Hot glue is used to make his hat and attach his beard and nose and other accessories.
ALL AGES
WIZARDING WORLD
WIZARDING WORLD
WIZARDING WORLD
Pick up your train ticket and walk through the magical brick wall onto the platform and into the world of STEM magic.
Make a wand, learn a spell to make words appear from invisible ink. Craft an owl mobile, and other magical creatures.
ALL AGES
LEAF PAINTING
WIZARDING WORLD
NAIL & STRING ART
This is a great project to learn about tints and shades while experimenting with printing leaves on wooden canvases.
Tints and shades is an introduction to the use of perspective in painting. The light and dark contrast creates a sense of depth in a design.
AGES 10 and UP
NAIL & STRING ART
NAIL & STRING ART
NAIL & STRING ART
Learn the art of nail and string on wood. Create a simple vase or a design of your own using small nails and yarn, string, or twine to create a piece of three dimensional art.
Ages 12 and up.
LINO CUT ART
NAIL & STRING ART
LINO CUT ART
Hand cut your own printing block and press your design onto paper or fabric.
Involves the use of sharp cutting tools.
Ages 14 and up.
MANDALA ART
NAIL & STRING ART
LINO CUT ART
Learn the details that go into creating mandala art.
This craft is great for youths and adults looking for interested in the art of design.
Ages 12 and up.
HANGING FLORAL WEAVE
HANGING FLORAL WEAVE
HANGING FLORAL WEAVE
Macrame’ combined with loom weaving creating beautiful floral weaves with yarns of all thicknesses and texture.
This craft is best suited for older teens and adults. It involves complicated knots and patience.
CREEPY ART DOLLS
HANGING FLORAL WEAVE
HANGING FLORAL WEAVE
Imagine all of the weird things you can find to transform an ordinary porcelain doll into a creepy or unusual creation.
Creepy Art Doll workshops aren’t for the faint of heart. This craft is best for older teens and adults because of glass parts, sharp metal, wire cutting tools and other cutting tools.
IMAGINE
HANGING FLORAL WEAVE
IMAGINE
Lots more crafting activities coming your way.