Help your fifth grader trace your family's roots and interview all the living mothers to create a makeshift, 3-D family tree!

Help your fifth grader bring the magnificent spirit of Rome to a modern day, personalized clay coin.

Create a yarn doll out of a few toothpicks and colorful string with this Guatemalan craft.

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

In Colonial times, fixing a chair was a lot easier than making one! Any fifth-grader can wrap up a mirror or photo frame the same way Colonists caned chairs.

Explore history and prepare for backyard battle with this samurai helmet craft.

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

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

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.

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

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

Explore the world from your own home by conducting research about other cultures with your 4th grade child.

Promote your child's appreciation for Jackie Robinson, an important figure in African-American history, by having your child create a baseball card!

Explore Pilgrim foodways with three heritage cornbread recipes.

This Kool-Aid tie-dye activity is a kid-friendly craft that never gets old. Learn how to make tie-dye shirts using assorted Kool-Aid flavors here.

Give your child a taste of life in Civil War era America by mixing up a batch of old-fashioned cornbread, adapted from a 19th century recipe.

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

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!

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

Celebrate the colors of the American flag with this playful craft project!

Your child will learn a whole alphabet of different jobs while they complete this brain-teaser chart just in time to celebrate Labor Day!

Here's a fun activity that will allow your child to express himself by making a flag of his own design, then writing an accompanying story.

Test your kid's knowledge of presidents one through forty-four with this fun and educational matching game!

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

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

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

Learn about the architecture of Asia by building your very own model of a pagoda!

This science fair project idea explores whether cats can be trained in the same way that dogs can.

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.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.