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!

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!

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!

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

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.

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.

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

Recycle old materials to create a fun, brain-teasing maze toy that also strengthens your child's math reasoning skills.

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

Give your child some practice with even numbers, while creating a cute Christmas keepsake. Create this skip counting book.

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

Stay active over summer vacation with this fun take on the old favorite Red Rover!

Want to reuse materials that would otherwise get tossed in the trash? Show your third grader how to get crafty with old newspaper and fabric.

Don't toss out those old tortillas! Your child can use them to create her own tortilla chips in any flavor she can imagine.

Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.