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In this activity, your child will reference Matisse and also learn about patterns.
How to Paint Like Matisse
History
Fourth Grade
Help your child learn about the world through this 3rd-4th grade geography activity: start a postcard collection and mark where they came from on a world map.
Travel the World with a Postcard Collection Map
Geography
Third Grade
This low-prep party game is a perfect for entertaining all-too-easily-bored teens, and an easy way to lighten the mood during a group study session.
Pop Culture Game
World Cultures
High School
Your child will look forward to lunchtime with this artistic reinterpretation of the same old cold lunch.
Bento Box Lunch
Community & Cultures
Second Grade
Take a stab at 18th century American cooking with your kids by following this tasty recipe from the first colonial cookbook.
Bake Colonial Pumpkin Pie
US History
Third Grade
Your child is sure to find this colorful pink, green and white salad simply irresistible. For an added challenge, give your youngster a pair of chopsticks!
Vermicelli Salad
World Cultures
Fifth Grade
Enlist your fourth grader's help with the mashing of the potatoes to make these sweet potato knishes, and his gross motor skills will come into play!
Sweet Potato Knish
World Cultures
Fourth Grade
Here's a fun family activity: have your preschooler make a cameo appearance by creating and drawing on their own silhouettes!
Silhouette Portraits
History
Third Grade
Bring historical figures alive with this fun family activity! Your child will plan a Founding Fathers Feast by researching historical figures.
Host a Founding Fathers Feast
US History
Middle School
Help kids tap into their inner inventor by teaching them how to make peanut butter through trial, error, and lots of taste testing!
How to Make Peanut Butter
History
First Grade
Ancient tribes believed that these dolls kept worries away at night. Your 1st grader can make his own and learn about history, culture, and art in this activity
Craft a Native American Worry Doll
Community & Cultures
First Grade
After your child makes her own Jewish Tzedakah box, she can use the box to collect money and give it to her favorite charity.
Make a Tzedakah Box
World Cultures
Third Grade
Honor our Pilgrim roots by taking your family outdoors on Thanksgiving Day for some fun, traditional games!
Three Outdoor "Pilgrim" Games
US History
Third Grade
Encourage your child's interest in other cultures by helping him create his own colorful prayer flag inscribed with a special message for the world.
Create a Tibetan Prayer Flag
World History
World Cultures
Spark your child's interest in ancient history by making a round shield like the ones carried by hoplites, Ancient Greek citizen-soldiers.
Make a Hoplite Shield
World History
Middle School

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