Children's Recycling Resources
Recycling presentation, videos and song
Recycling leaflets
Early Years Foundation Stage / KS1 resources
MK Eco Warriors
KS2 worksheets
KS3+ resources
Activities
Craft Ideas
World War 2 Topic Activities
Recycling posters
Recycling web links
School Trips and Talks
Recycling presentation, videos and song
- Presentation: MK Recycles, for classroom or assembly (PPTX, 14.9MB)
- Presentation script: MK Recycles, for classroom or assembly (PDF, 152KB)
- Video: How MK Recycling Factory works
- Video: Food Waste by Walton High School
- Sing: Green Green Milton Keynes Sing-along video
- Sing: Green, Green Milton Keynes Song Words (PDF, 242KB)
Recycling leaflets
To request leaflets to be posted out please email wasteeducation@milton-keynes.gov.uk stating amount required.
Mini Eco Warriors - suitable for Early Years Foundation and KS1
Use these resources to encourage young children to help with recycling and care for the environment. Also, find additional activity and craft resources listed further down this webpage.
- Mini eco warrior autumn challenges (PDF, 156KB)
- Mini eco warrior litter pledge (PDF, 211KB)
- Craft: Harry hedgehog paper collage sheet (PDF, 228KB)
- Colour-in: People who help us - recycling lorry (PDF, 353KB)
- Colour-in: Fun Food waste sheet (PDF, 258KB)
- Activity: Recycle wall chart (PDF, 160KB)
- Quiz: Eye spy in the park (PDF, 381KB)
- Quiz: Eye spy in the street (PDF, 443KB)
- Quiz: Eye spy in the woods (PDF, 458KB)
- Game: Recycle matching pairs card game (PDF, 755KB)
- Sing: The Recycle rhyme (PDF, 289KB)
MK Eco Warriors
Free to all MK Junior Schools the Eco Warriors scheme is designed to encourage and educate children about local environmental issues.
Worksheets for KS2
- Worksheet: Recycling container match up (PDF, 500KB)
- Worksheet: What is it recycled into quiz? (PDF, 359KB)
- Worksheet: Landfill A to Z challenge (PDF, 355KB)
- Worksheet: The Iron Man and the Recycling Factory (PDF, 227KB)
- Worksheet: Clear sack contents quiz (PDF, 372KB)
- Worksheet: Recycling wordsearch (PDF, 318KB)
- Worksheet: Rubbish wordsearch (PDF, 322KB)
- Worksheet: Recycling quiz (PDF, 327KB)
Resources for Secondary School students available here
Activities
- Activity: Design a recycling lorry (PDF, 353KB)
- Activity: Activity ideas (PDF, 269KB)
- Activity: At home recycling challenge grid (PDF, 548KB)
- Activity: Create your own poster (PPTX, 1.7MB)
- Game: Recycle Bingo! game (PDF, 1MB)
- Game: Litter breakdown (PDF, 841KB)
- Litter pledge certificate (PDF, 204KB)
- Game: Table Top Recycling Game (PDF, 479KB)
Craft Ideas - How To sheets
- Craft: Cardboard bunting (PDF, 430KB)
- Craft: Paper collage (PDF, 247KB)
- Craft: Plastic bottle top mosaic (PDF, 227KB)
- Craft: Milk bottle elephant (PDF, 397KB)
- Craft: Bottle top cards (PDF, 256KB)
- Craft: Bottle top bug (PDF, 321KB)
- Craft: Bin bag monster (PDF, 419KB)
- Craft: Box puppet theatre (PDF, 264KB)
- Craft: Book mouse (PDF, 274KB)
- Craft: Celebration rosette card (PDF, 329KB)
World War 2 National Savage Campaign
- Worksheet: WW2 National Salvage Campaign (PDF, 349KB)
- WW2 Cogs recycling scheme (PDF, 461KB)
- Craft: WW2 Gas Mask craft (PDF, 352KB)
- Craft: WW2 Anderson Shelter Craft (PDF, 326KB)
- Craft: WW2 Poster create (PDF, 307KB)
Recycling posters
Classroom wall posters:
- Poster: Classroom Recycling Poster (JPG, 248KB)
- Poster: What happens to my recycling? (PDF, 334KB)
- Poster; Recycling Facts Posters (PDF, 4.4MB)
- Poster: Why do we recycle (PDF, 422KB)
- Poster: Litter breakdown times (PDF, 322KB)
- Wall display: Recycling in MK (PDF, 4MB)
- Wall display: Litter (PDF, 841KB)
Bin posters:
- Poster: Recycling bin poster (PDF, 355KB)
- Poster: Paper bin poster (PDF, 323KB)
- Poster: Rubbish bin poster (PDF, 388KB)
- Poster: Food waste bin poster (PDF, 366KB)
- Poster: Glass recycling bin poster (PDF, 405KB)
- Poster: Shredder sign (PDF, 216KB)
Recycling web links
Check what goes in each recycling container and then test a grow-up!
- What goes in the clear recycling sack?
- www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/blacksack
- www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/bluebox
- www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/greenbin
- www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/yellowbag
Free MK School trips and talks
To register your interest in future talks and tours of the MK Recycling Factory and MK Waste Recovery Park once these become available again please email wasteeducation@milton-keynes.gov.uk. Please see instead our Eco Warrior scheme and classroom Power Point presentation listed above.
Last Updated: 21 October 2020