Turn all those broken bits of plates, random buttons, or other odds and ends into a lovely flower pot for Mom on Mother's Day.

Your child can create a string wrapped headband to hold her hair back during the hot summer. Plus, it will re-purpose left over bits of string and thread!

Re-purpose a tin can into a pretty compost bucket for your family's kitchen counter and learn about the science and fun of recycling and renewing objects.

This activity is a craft project and a math workshop all in one! Use found objects to encourage your child to imitate, extend, and create patterns.

This fun Christmas craft recycles paper bags to create personalized stockings by your kids to enjoy during the holidays.

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.

Your child can re-purpose any used (and cleaned) can into a colorful container to hold Dad's pens and pencils on his desk!

Help your child rocket off for some high-flying fun with a jet pack you make from recycled materials and a few odds and ends.

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

Teach your 2nd grader the value of recycling with this fun arts and crafts activity: make a DIY painted bookcase or set of shelves!

Add an ancient protective tool to your child's dress-up chest: the Viking shield!

Take a page from Art Nouveau master Gustav Klimt and compose a shining collage.

Jazz up your patio or backyard with hip and quirky planters made from simple Mason jars.

Have your child create a project that combines the beauty of Japanese cherry blossoms with the eco-friendly fun of a recycled craft.

Instead of buying new sunglasses this summer, why not use recycled materials to make some of your own?

Design and throw a boomerang in this exciting craft project!

As school starts, there's no better time to get your kid off to a fresh, fun, organized start. Here's a desk craft for style-minded students!

Help your child create a mosaic mirror frame that's a bit modern and a bit vintage at the same time. All she needs are a dollar store frame and an old CD!

Your kid will delight in creating an extraterrestrial vehicle from goods found around the house. There's no telling where her imagination will go!

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

Your child can now recreate history by building his very own fortified castle.

Using an empty plastic bottle, your child can create a newfangled version of this African percussion instrument.

Give your number one dad something that he truly deserves this Father's Day!

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

Outfit a pair of dark sunglasses with sneaky mirrors for eyes in the back of your head.

Get fashionable with this oh-so-easy, totally customizable washi tape bracelet craft.

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

Try this creative art project with your second grader to help him build up his fine motor skills and artistic awareness as he makes a faux stained glass vase.

Making these fabulous cupcake liner flowers is a great way to introduce your child to relief artwork and patterns.

This Halloween, have your child create a ghoulish bat treat keeper. While crafting he'll learn the basic components of sculpture.