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!

Work on simple addition and finding even numbers in this second-grade math card game.

This activity is based on the popular card game, Slapjack. It's rip-roaring fun, and it reinforces the concepts of odd and even.

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Discover a way to take old denim out of your child's closet without removing it from her life with this beautiful recycled craft.

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!

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."