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Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

This science fair project idea measures out the sugar of various foods and find out whether people can correctly determine how much sugar is in common foods.

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!

An ancient form of writing gets new life in an activity designed to help your child read understand what life was like for early Native Americans.

This science fair project teaches kids experimental design and how to test if subjects can really sense if they are being watched.

Take a stab at 18th century American cooking with your kids by following this tasty recipe from one of the first colonial cookbooks.

Help your kids map the "global footprint" of your family's grocery cart by investigating how far your food travels before landing on your dinner table.

Step into the fantastic world of colors with a project that explores what shade you -- and your friends -- like best.

Celebrate Ramadan by recreating a scene depicting the inside of a mosque. Your kid will marvel at the beautiful stained glass effect of the finished project.

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

Teach your child about the importance and peacefulness of Ramadan as she gets creative drawing domes, minarets and prayer halls.

Your child can make her own Mexican tin art mirror with cardboard, a mirror, and an aluminum pan.

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

Word color association is just a fancy way to talk about the way we connect colors with words.

Ignite your child's creativity by having them design their own clay version of an alebrije, a traditional fanciful creature like the ones made in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Welcome the holiday season by making your own paper lantern. Learn about traditional light festivals from the United States with this fun, easy activity.

Celebrate the holidays by making farolitos, paper lanterns with elaborate designs and historical roots.

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!

Encourage your child to make a Chinese scroll painting as part of his world history or art studies, or just to pass the time on a weekend.

Learn more about the fascinating folk art of Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs with this easy craft.

Make ancient Egypt come alive by showing kids how to make their own mini sarcophagus out of a shoe box.

Explore geometry, patterns, and history by creating pretty decorative Islamic tile art.

Next time you're headed out on the road with your fourth grader, try this alphabet-geography game that the whole family can play.

Learn about sound physics and do a survey experiment to explore the difference between sound and noise in this science project.

Help your fifth grader embrace the roots--literally--of Mother's Day by growing carnations to honor mothers in you family's history.

To pay tribute to the ancient Mexican art of mosaics, your child can craft a colorful mosaic using old magazines, a paper plate and lots of imagination.

Free science fair project idea that examines the differences between cats and dogs. Analyze objective qualities rather than subjective ones.

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

In this fun project, use a memory game to test various age groups and determine whether aging directly affects short-term memory loss.

Kids are acutely aware of what's "fair" and what's not. Here's a quirky way to teach your first grader the importance of voting and democracy.