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Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

Help your second grader celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King with this rainbow table mat.

Your second grader can honor two renowned U.S. Presidents--Abraham Lincoln and George Washington--by crafting larger-than-life pennies and quarters!

Your first or second grader will delight in creating multi-colored confetti egg smashers, traditional in Mexico, called cascarones!

Introduce your second grader to a fun Mexican custom by showing her how to make papel picado, a beautiful creation of cut-out tissue paper.

Teach your first or second grader about an important Mexican holiday, the Day of the Dead, with this traditional skeleton mask made out of a paper plate.

Give your second-grader insight into the Huichol culture of Mexico with this arts and craft activity by creating an ojo de Dios (eye of God), or yarn weaving.

Celebrate African heritage by making an African flag banner. This fun, culturally-inspired art project is perfect for Black History Month.

Horse chestnuts are inedible, but British children found a fun use for them around the 1840s by turning them into a game called Conkers.

Craft a patriotic placemat from red, white, and blue construction paper in this festive craft project!

Teach your child about the importance and meaning behind bowing in Asian cultures and help her expand her cultural horizons with this fun activity.

With this activity, you'll create a family treasure...and reinforce social studies basics while you're at it!

Learn about our cognitive capacity of attention and to learn about factors that influence attention.

Expand your child's geographic awareness with these fun and easy map lessons.

Learn about our response to scents that existed in our environment over evolutionary time and consider why scents might affect our mood state.

Explore the neural and mental mechanisms at play in mental imagery.

Maracas are most commonly found in music around the world. Introduce your child to percussion and rhythm with this easy-to-make instrument.

Make a Korean paper fan! This activity is a great way to help your child explore different cultures while she builds her fine motor and arts and crafts skills.

Teach kids about a fun way they can remember this more efficiently- the power of mnemonics. Kids will be amazed.

Science fair project in which you will stage an election campaign to determine whether people are more swayed by a positive ad or negative ad.

Is it a square or a circle? See if you can trick your friends with this zany science project!

Help your child make a recycling poster for your household and teach them how to take care of the environment!

Encourage your child to learn about the Japanese culture as you make a traditional Japanese fan out of paper.

The objective of this science project is to determine whether the brain first processes colors, shapes, or words when given conflicting messages.

Introduce your fifth grader (and friends) to a unique Jewish tradition by paying homage to the Maccabiah games by engaging them in their own makeshift games!

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

This science fair project idea determines whether volunteers remember more information presented orally or visually or kinesthetically.

Celebrate Chinese New Year by teaching your child how to use chopsticks! She'll build her math and fine motor skills as she does this activity.

Capture a bit of mythological magic with this clever sock craft!

Here's a great activity to help learners satisfy their snow play cravings in a cozy indoor setting!