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.

Practice math and social studies skills with this fun game based on the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

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.

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

Inspire your fifth grader to explore a new culture and determine her New Year's fortune by playing this German wax dripping game.

Help your child put a new spin on her favorite myth by turning it into a mad lib! Guaranteed to bring the giggles, this fun activity also packs in the learning.

This activity with add some fun and education to long car trips. Perfect for family vacations!

Spark your child's interest in current events by encouraging them to write a letter to the U.S. president.

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!

Dive into U.S. colonial history by making a simple bottle gourd water cooler, crafted by colonists of Roanoke Island in the 16th century.

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!

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.

Celebrate our nation's colonial history by making your very own weaving loom!

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

Have your kid imagine that she is a TV personality who has been assigned to cover the Olympics.

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

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.

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!