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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!

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!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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.

Re-use old plastic food containers to create these uniquely beautiful stepping stones to embed in your backyard!

Make over an old shirt that's destined for the thrift shop with this heart cut-out craft for Valentine's Day.

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

With a few creases and crimps, you can turn regular old aluminum foil into tin foil art!

Tell the Purim story in a new way: By making a set of puppets out of an old deck of cards!

Your child can re-use and re-purpose old seeds and paper into something new: decorated paper that can be planted!

If your child isn't wild about tea, help her repurpose an old teacup and saucer as a quirky decorative planter.

Looking for a customized locker accessory? Try this DIY Mirror Craft and spruce up a plain old mirror with some original designs.

Keep your child active this summer by transforming old milk jugs into scoops and newspaper into a ball with this exciting game of catch!