When it comes to helping your third grader manage a school backpack, small steps now bring big payoffs later.

This family project is a fun way to teach your child about her heritage and practice her geography.

This Haggadah scroll activity is great for getting kids to practice handwriting, but it will also get them thinking about the meaning behind Passover.

Host a royal party full of "please and thank you" - even the queen would approve. Have a ball while your kids practice etiquette!

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

Honor our 16th president by having your kid assemble his famous stovepipe hat! This Abe Lincoln hat craft is the perfect way to celebrate Presidents Day.

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.

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

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

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.

Play loteria, a Mexican board game! Help your child make this fun and festive game to help her build her vocabulary and have a blast while she's at it.

Have the children play a more active role in the Seder by helping them prepare paper puppets that represent the ten plagues.

Nothing says party like a bright and bursting piÃata! Create your own mini festive centerpiece with paper towel rolls and ribbons.

Spark your child's interest in international sporting events by creating a banner of world flags.

Help your child create her own version of a Moroccan lantern to give her room an Arabian nights feel!

In this activity, your child will make her own book of Swahili numbers filled with pictures of animals found throughout Africa.

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

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

Celebrate Black History Month by having your child make her own version of a kente cloth after learning what the different colors on a kente cloth symbolize.

Learn about the ancient art of Japanese calligraphy with this New Year's activity about kakizome.

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

Help your child create his own pinata in this fun and easy activity. Use paper mache and fingerpaint for a party pinata everyone will love.

In this activity, your child will create a red envelope that can be filled with money to spread good will and ward off evil spirits in the New Year.

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

Make this dragon relief with your first grader to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and teach her about an important part of Chinese culture.

Make an initiation shield like the ones from the Kikuyu tribe in Africa for an art project.

Tell the Purim story in a new way: By making a set of puppets out of an old deck of cards!

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

During the Passover Seder, many Jewish families pour a cup of red wine for Elijah. This year, help your child create his own welcoming glass for Elijah.