Create a one-of-a-kind lunchbox with your second grader using recycled materials and some down home ingenuity!

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.

Valentine's Day is a great day to show loved ones how much you appreciate them, and this love bug craft is an adorably simple way to spread the love.

Delight your second grader (and his best friend!) by showing him how to make a friendship collage jar project for someone special this holiday season.

Looking for something to do with all those plastic 2-liter bottles that seem to accumulate endlessly? Turn them into a unique mini birdbath.

Who says you have to buy your toys at the toy store? In this activity, you can plan and build a pretend play city entirely out of recycled materials.

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.

Take a break with a paper bag costume. A great rainy-day art project.

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

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

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

2nd graders with some weaving experience can turn a gallon milk jug and plastic grocery bags into a functional basket.

What better way to raise awareness about the environment than with an eco-friendly Earth-themed party? Get your party started with this step-by-step guide.

This dreidel craft gets your child to make the spinning top out of a milk carton. Make an upcycled dreidel craft with your child this Hanukkah.

Help your child learn how to protect the environment by creating a useful reference for the family with this recycling poster.

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

Party noise makers help you ring in the New Year loud and proud. These party noise makers are eco-friendly and festive for your holiday celebration.

This little bumble bee is the perfect springtime party table decoration and is great practice for pattern-making, folding and cutting.

All you need to put together this guitar is an old shoebox. Soon your kid will be rocking out while saving room in the landfill.

Spice up your everyday vase with this fun craft adding colorful layers of beans to a regular vase. The beans add beauty and function, helping prop up flowers.

Use an old strawberry basket to create a decorative box for storing knickknacks, jewelry or odds and ends with this recycled craft.

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

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

Recycle bottles of different shapes and sizes to create a group of unique dolls that are as unique as the real people around you!

Learn how to make a mustache with these simple instructions. See how to make a mustache on a stick for Halloween, costume parties, or dress up.

Slip some science into storm watching with a homemade rain gauge!

Celebrate Earth Day, or any day, by recycling an old CD and make a colorful, decorative fish!

This project can help prepare your child for a trip to the tide pools, or give him a way to remember some of the many creatures he saw during his visit.

Help your child channel his inner wizard with this crafty activity perfect for imaginative youngsters.

Recycle an old soda bottle into a beautiful, functional soap dish! In this project your child will practice saving the environment in a proactive way.