Teach your child how to accessorize the environmental way!

Help your child use an old water bottle and a few other household materials to make her own eco-friendly pal!

Turn all those broken bits of plates, random buttons, or other odds and ends into a lovely flower pot for Mom on Mother's Day.

This fun, think-outside-the-box activity introduces kids to gravity and other basic scientific concepts as they construct an impressive marble run!

Let your child set her artistic talent free with an easy, environmentally-friendly bottle cap mosaic.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

Save money and get creative by helping your preschooler create and make her own unique sketchbook to put her art in.

Instead of tossing old school supplies, turn them into a work of art and teach your kids how to find new uses for old things.

Save money by having your tween rock these homemade jeggings, a good craft for a lazy afternoon.

Tin can phones offer something modern versions don't—a fun project to make with a friend, and a dramatic illustration of vibration and sound waves.

Make a homemade doll out of recycled materials, similar to dolls made by pioneer children.

Celebrate Earth Day with a decorative tree made out of strictly reused and recycled materials.

Make your own Matryoshka out of simple craft materials in this easy how-to!

Who says you have to buy your toys at the toy store? In this activity, you can plan and build a pretend play city entirely out of recycled materials.

This Haggadah scroll activity is great for getting kids to practice handwriting, but it will also get them thinking about the meaning behind Passover.

This Earth Day, create an adorable litter bug while learning about the importance of recycling.

Recycle paper and old magazines with this art project that creates a great tool for artists: a color wheel!

Design and throw a boomerang in this exciting craft project!

Make a shiny decorative Menorah using an egg carton and light bulbs.

Celebrate Earth Day by making colorful animal sculptures using recycled materials from around the house in this 3rd grade arts and crafts activity.

Explore African culture by helping your child make his very own djembe drum! Help your child explore music and rhythm as he celebrates Black History Month.

If you have a young child who loves physical stunts, try making these coffee-can stilts for backyard fun.

Looking for something to do on a slow afternoon? Try cornhole, a simple and fun tossing game. Make your own set with a few things from the recycling bin.

In the mood for a little lighthearted magic? Make your own chi chi sticks, inspired by the divination tools of ancient Chinese fortune tellers.

Make a candy wrapper collage with your leftover candy wrappers! This candy wrapper collage is a cool, upcycled post-Halloween craft project.

Help your child learn how to protect the environment by creating a useful reference for the family with this recycling poster.

This activity is a craft project and a math workshop all in one! Use found objects to encourage your child to imitate, extend, and create patterns.

Music instruments can be expensive. Sidestep steep prices with this art project that uses recycled materials to create a melodious music maker!

Give your number one dad something that he truly deserves this Father's Day!

This adorable toy is fun to play with and easy to make. Even better, you should be able to find all the materials you need lying around your house.