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Artful Notepad Milk Jug Craft for Kids - With its translucent cover, this sleek little pad shows off a child's photo collage, and the lucky recipient will never believe it was made from a trash-bound milk jug. It's the perfect gift for a parent, a teacher -- or anyone who has notes to take.

Box Cars Craft for Kids with Milk Jugs - With a few materials and a little imagination, you can make box cars like a race car, a sports car, or even a minivan.

Build A Jumbo Jet - Build your own model jumbo jet! Nearly everything you need is recycled. Where will you fly?

Ball Catchers Crafts Tutorial - A recycled milk jug or detergent bottle becomes a great ball catcher for young kids just learning how to catch.

Costume Helmet Craft with Recycled Milk Jug - Whether your trick or treater is going out as a Viking, Frankenstein's monster or as a race car driver, this plastic milk carton helmet is a Halloween craft that will come in handy.

Catch The Comet Game for Kids - Make a fun scoop game for budding astronauts with Empty Milk Jugs!

Eerie Luminarias Halloween with Milk Jug - Light the path to your haunted mansion with these clever milk jug luminarias.

Garden Markers - With garden markers, you'll never forget where you planted the carrots! You can even make notes about watering needs and harvest time.

How to Make a Piggy Bank with an Empty Plastic Jug - This Craft is done with an empty bleach bottle, but can easily enough be done with an empty milk jug. With some paint and a little creativity, you and your child can make an adorable piggy bank that will dazzle the change right out of your pocket. Learn how to make a DIY piggy bank with your kids.

Milk Container Pumpkin Craft for Children - A safe way to light up your walkway, this milk container pumpkin craft is perfect for Fall.

Milk Jug Animal Masks Craft for Kids - Make this fun craft inspired by the beastly possibilities of an empty milk jug.

Milk Jug House Craft Activity for Kids - Milk isn't the only thing that packages well by the gallon. Convert an empty plastic jug into a portable dollhouse or hot-rod garage.

Milk Jug Easter Basket : A great Easter Craft for Kids - Here is a great Easter craft for children to make other than Easter eggs. Children will have a great time with this art project, that allows them to create their very own Easter Bunny Basket. Mine have done this for years and each year they figure out different ways to decorate their easter basket. I wish you all a Happy Easter!

Milk Jug Whale Craft for Kids - An everyday household item becomes a new bath toy!

Milk Jug Jack-O-Lantern Halloween Craft - This Jack-O-Lantern is easy for your kinderartists to create with empty Milk Jugs Containers (with a little help from you) and it is safe for your kinderartists to carry around (no fire hazards).

Milk Jug Bird Feeders - Creating a milk jug bird feeder is fun and easy.

Milk Jug Car : How to Make a Toy Car Out of a Milk Jug - With a few materials and a little imagination, you can make box cars like a race car, a sports car, or even a minivan.

Milk Jug Catch Craft for Children - Milk Jug Catch is a great game to play indoors or outdoors. It's especially fun for kids because they make the scoops themselves.

Milk Jug Garden Nannies - For a convenient garden tool, look no further than that empty milk jug in the corner.

Milk Jug Lanterns - Adults and children of all ages can find entertainment from taking old empty milk cartons and turning them into decorative lanterns.

Milk Jug Noise Makers - You only need two things to make a milk jug noise maker; a milk jug with a cap and something to put inside it that will make a lot of noise when you shake it around.

Milk Jug Skeleton Halloween Craft for Children - Easy skeleton made from milk jug.

Model Car Factory with Recycled Items - Liven up a rainy afternoon by test-driving a fleet of homemade cars with recycled items such as an empty milk container.

Monster Jug Heads Craft - Make monsterous creations come to alive from plastic jugs and paint.

Mr. Bottle Bones Recycled Jugs Craft - Resurrect recycled milk jugs into a life-size skeleton.

Plastic Posies Flower Craft with Recycled Milk Jugs - Perched atop a PVC-pipe stem, these ever-blooming milk jug flowers get their radiant hues from permanent markers, not Mother Nature. When purchasing the PVC, keep in mind that it's sold by its internal diameter. The external diameter will be larger.

Pretend Milk Jug Bike Helmet Craft for Kids - Make this pretend Bike Helmet decoration out of a plastic milk jug.

Rain Hat Craft with an Empty Milk Jug - How to make this fun rain hat using a clean, empty milk jug!

Reusable Lunch Containers Crafts Activity - Say buh-bye to those little plastic bags. With just a few snips, you can create a set of cool, eco-friendly, reusable snack and sandwich containers from juice cartons and milk jugs. They're food-safe, easy to rinse clean, and absolutely free, so it's no biggie if they get tossed accidentally. Let your kids decorate the boxes with stickers and permanent markers for an even more personalized look.

Spirit Jugs Arts and Crafts Project for Children - Stationed on a walkway or porch, these homemade lanterns will extend a ghostly greeting and good-bye to all your holiday visitors.

Spooky Spider Milk Jug & Pipe Craft - Greet party guests with this not-so-itsy-bitsy spider made from a milk jug and pipe insulation.

Toy Carrier with Empty Plastic Bottles or Milk Jugs - Heather Donham from CA shares dirctions for recycling laundry detergent bottles into fun toy carriers ... however, you can also use empty milk jugs for this one.

Toy Garage Craft - Milk isn't the only thing that packages well by the gallon. Using milk jug craft ideas from this page, your party guests can turn an empty plastic jug into a portable hot-rod garage or anything else you desire - possibilities are endless!

Whale Water Scoop Craft for Kids - Pour, splash, and otherwise play in the sink or tub with this "creature of the deep" water toy with recycled empty Milk Jug.

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