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Boost your child's sense of self by celebrating ME! She'll explore her family, draw a self portrait and more, a perfect exercise for building self-confidence.
Celebrate ME (7)
Community & Cultures
First Grade
Invite your first grader to follow a African tradition by coming up with an explanatory African folktale and assembling a book to go along with it.
Create an Animal Folk Tale
Community & Cultures
First Grade
If you're planning a trip with a third grader, you can harness your child's impatience and reinforce some solid academic skills with this fun activity.
Plan a Trip
Geography
Third Grade
Have your little cowpoke design and decorate a vest that's perfect for combating the elements on the harsh Western plains.
How to Make a Cowboy Vest
National Symbols
Kindergarten
Inspire your fifth grader to explore a new culture and determine her New Year's fortune by playing this German wax dripping game.
Secret Fortune
World Cultures
Fifth Grade
Expand your child's geographic awareness with these fun and easy map lessons.
Cartography for Kids
Community & Cultures
Kindergarten
Introduce your first grader to our country's most famous leaders with an artsy info board full of facts, patriotic colors and coins!
Presidential Info Board
History
First Grade
Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.
Patchwork Placemats
Community & Cultures
Second Grade
Help your kindergartener use a map to find 'leprechaun gold'--and build early social studies skills in the process!
St. Patrick's Day Art Project
Holidays
Kindergarten
In the mood for a little lighthearted magic? Make your own chi chi sticks!
Chi Chi Sticks
World Cultures
Fourth Grade
Combine music, history and craft by making a Native American instrument of your own
Make a Bullroarer
History
Fourth Grade
Put yourself in the shoes of a Civil War soldier and write to a loved one.
Civil War Letter
US History
Middle School
Get your creative kid into tasseography! The ancient art of reading tea leaves gets a modern update in this simplified version for youthful fortune tellers!
Tasseography
World Cultures
Middle School
Make your own colorful dragon out of empty toilet paper rolls to celebrate the Chinese New Year!
Craft a Chinese New Year Dragon
Holidays
Preschool
Give your child a taste of life in Civil War era America by mixing up a batch of old-fashioned cornbread, adapted from a 19th century recipe.
History in the Kitchen: Civil War Cornbread
US History
Fifth Grade

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