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!

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.

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

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!

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.

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

Gather your child's old artwork together into a bookmark, a perfect gift to retain these memories long after kindergarten is over.

Strengthen your child's number recognition skills with this fun game using an old, empty egg carton!

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

Teach your kid a lesson about recycling by helping him create a letter holder out of an old cardboard box.

This twist on the same old Hide and Seek is a great weekend or rainy-day activity.

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.

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

Reuse old cardboard boxes and popsicle sticks to create a miniature sled that is perfect for pretend play with dolls or action figures.

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