Bake Challah Bread
This challah bread recipe is great for hands-on lesson in the science of baking! Your fledgling baker will enjoy this tactile experience--and the final product!
Make a Traditional Indian Wall Hanging
Your child will create their very own traditional Indian Toran wall hanging using construction paper, yarn and paint.
Practice Storytelling with a Plot Potluck!
Think of this as a potluck of sorts; but instead of bringing a chicken casserole, everyone brings an idea. Remember the old "I'm going on a trip" game? This game offers a different spin, by building a story in a similar fashion.
Make an Oil Lantern
This project demonstrates how lighter liquids, such as oil, float atop heavier liquids, such as water. An oil lantern is cool any time of the year, regardless of religion, but makes a great craft for Hanukkah, too!
Play Musical Statues
This simple movement activity helps improve listening skills, as your child will be required to discriminate between sound and silence.
Bake Aggression Cookies: Playdough Cookies Kids Can Pound!
These cookies are a great way to deal with upset feelings. The more your child pounds, squeezes, and mashes the dough, the better the cookies will taste!
Craft a Japanese Scroll
Jump into Japanese culture with your child by making your own Japanese-style calligraphy scroll. Try your hand at painting kanji on paper just like artists and Zen masters of old!
Make an Ancient Travel Brochure
One way to help your child learn about ancient civilizations is by creating a travel brochure. He'll flex his creative muscles, as well as gain a greater appreciation for these complex civilizations.
Ojo de Dios
In this activity, give your child some insight into another culture with this craft activity: create an ojo de Dios (eye of God), a representation of the yarn weaving done by the Huichol population of northwest Mexico.
Make a Quill Pen
Many of the world's most important historical documents were written with quill pens. Now your child can make his own, and experiment writing with a feather pen-- just like Washington and Jefferson.
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