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Making candles from old candles is easy. Recycle old candle stubs to make a "new" candle, and teach your child about recycling at the same time!

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

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.

Blend homework time with playtime by introducing a cast of colorful characters to the top of your child's pens and pencils.

Use up your leftover hardboiled Easter eggs with our healthy, gourmet variations on an old classic: deviled eggs

Capture the past with this photo mobile that turns old photo negative strips into hanging art!

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

Upcycle an old dress shirt into artsy bow with just a few simple sewing techniques.

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

Let your child create a fun and easy locker blackboard out of an old cereal box!

Car cluttered with old maps now that you've adopted GPS technology? Upcycle them in this fun geography craft.

Put old, worn-out picture books to work by constructing a book birdhouse, perfect for welcoming spring.

Boost creativity with this simple activity where kids make up biographies of people they find in old magazines.

Teach your child how butter is created by shaking up cream the old-fashioned way.

Sick of the same old arts and crafts projects? Try a new kind of art--string art!

Retablos are a kind of Latin American folk art that blend personal and spiritual themes. Have your child create her own version of retablo artwork.

Breathe new life into a battered old paperback with this creative book art craft that revolves around reading!

It's easy to turn old magazines into a fast-and-furious finding game that's both fun and educational for kids.

Dress up a plain old pen with this pretty craft that's great for back-to-school time.

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

Blend art and science in this hands-on activity that shows your kindergartener how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.

Reuse beloved old Christmas cards by filling them with candies and toys, and turn them into something to enjoy for years.

This year, help your child celebrate Easter by upcycling an old light bulb and make a cute little chicken face.

Your child will look forward to lunchtime with this artistic reinterpretation of the same old cold lunch.

Re-purpose an old glass bottle into a cute vase using a few pieces of felt and a little imagination.