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.

Help your child get creative and collect leaves of various sizes and textures that she can use to make animal art.

In this colorful craft, make an enchanting star card for a birthday, holiday, or just for fun with construction paper and foam sheets!

Get ready for leftovers with an adorable turkey lunch bag! This recycled craft is a great way to remind everyone how much fun they had on Thanksgiving.

Your first grader will love showcasing his favorite pieces of art with his very own personalized magnets created from old bottle caps!

Kids of all ages will delight in making these jumbo "cupcake" crayons from all of the broken crayon stubs that seem to pile up around the house.

Make these homemade friendship pencils for a party or the beginning of school and have a stylish writing utensil that kids will love trading.

Recycle all those old puzzles with missing pieces into a cute and easy puzzle piece tree.

Embrace the spooky and creepy thrills of Halloween night with a nightlight that will do more to frighten than soothe.

Celebrate the Presidents Day the creative way by constructing toilet paper tube figurines of a couple famous U.S. Presidents!

Show your love of nature with this pretty vase made with vines. It will be perfect for holding a floral bouquet!

In this arts and crafts activity, work with your preschooler to transform a cardboard box into a puppet theater and put on your own puppet drama.

Celebrate Earth Day, or any day, by recycling an old CD and make a colorful, decorative fish!

Help your child craft her first pair of knitting needles out of recycled chopsticks!

Does your child still want to play in the snow, even after he has to come inside? In this activity you'll build a snowman indoors!

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.

Save up your paper rolls to help your child create an upcycled craft that looks just like iron work!

The elegance of a glitter vase will rival the flowers inside it! Help your child craft this artsy gift as a special gift for a loved one.

Repurpose those plastic shopping bags hiding in your house into a fun and exciting decoration your child can hang in her room!

This is the perfect recycling project for back to school! Your child will put all those extra paper bags to good use and assemble her own personal notepad.

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

Take a page from Art Nouveau master Gustav Klimt and compose a shining collage.

Recycle your cereal boxes and engage your child's creativity with this fun arts and crafts project.

Cook up a batch of monster blood this Halloween to add gory details to vampires, zombies, werewolves and more.

Design and throw a boomerang in this exciting craft project!

Discover what makes an alligator an alligator with this adorable and affordable alligator craft.

Add an ancient protective tool to your child's dress-up chest: the Viking shield!

Encourage a spirit of giving and sharing with this meaningful tzedakah box craft project. 

Inspired by Charles Kaufman's crushed can art, this activity lets kids make their own unique works of art using, you guessed it, crushed cans and paint!

The next time your child decides he needs to press restart on his wardrobe, don't ship his clothes off to Goodwill so fast.