Cut out each item card and glue it into the matching group — Paper, Plastic, Metal or Compost. The sheet uses simple material types that children can see, not local recycling rules that change from place to place.
Easy is Paper versus Plastic with eight large cards. Hard adds Metal and Compost, with twelve cards and four labelled bins.
Sort items into Paper, Plastic, Metal or Compost.
Cut out the items. Glue each one in the matching recycling group.
A recycling-sort generator built from a local pool of everyday items. Each sheet picks a balanced mix for the chosen difficulty and shuffles the cut cards, so the same child can sort many times without memorising one poster.
Skills practiced
Print tip: Bin names and icons stay readable in black and white — colour is only a hint. Hard has twelve cards; check print preview before cutting with younger children.