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

This project, focused on the burial practices of ancient Egyptians, is a great addition to a social studies curriculum.

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

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.

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

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

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:

Your child can decorate her own set of Russian nesting dolls in this easy felt craft.

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.

Jump into Japanese culture with your child by making your own calligraphy scroll. Try your hand at painting kanji on paper just like Zen masters of old!

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

Create a compass rose from sidewalk chalk in this summer geography project!

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.

El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days

Enhance fourth-grade measurement making skills and social studies learning with this stitching project.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

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

Teach an important and often comical historical lesson with a prediction game that teaches youngsters about the fallibility of word-of-mouth talk.

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