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

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

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

Using butcher paper, ink and charcoal, your child will explore ancient motifs such as buffalo, bison and hunters by creating her very own cave painting.

Teach your child about Chinese New Year by creating a dragon float inspired by the brilliant traditional ones seen in Chinese new year parades.

Have you ever wondered how many numbers most people can memorize? Test your friends to find out!

Learn whether writing things down really makes things easier to remember.

Making a freedom kite is a great way to show appreciation on Memorial Day or July 4th, and enjoy the summer sunshine with family.

Teach kids about a fun way they can remember this more efficiently- the power of mnemonics. Kids will be amazed.

Many of the world's most important historical documents were written with quill pens. Have your kid make his own quill pen and put his penmanship to the test!

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

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

Make this African collar necklace for a lesson in crafting and African culture.

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.

Travel to ancient Mesopotamia with your kids by carving your own unique cuneiform cylinder seals.

Make sourdough bread...and learn some colonial history and modern science in the process!

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.

Civil War soldiers didn't take their wives with them to the battlefield, but they took along a piece of home: little sewing kits called "housewives".

Capture a bit of mythological magic with this clever sock craft!

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

Shadow puppets are a traditional form of folk art that originated in ancient China. Help your child create his own puppet and put on a show!

Combine music, history and craft by making a Native American instrument of your own

Bring a bit of the fun of Yuan Xiao Jie to your home with this lantern activity. Happy New Year!

Helping your child write their own "Thanksgiving Proclamation" can help them grasp the spirit of the day, and develop more of an attitude of gratitude.

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

Children read a famous letter from the American Civil War, then write a response, in this thoughtful history activity.

Have you ever taken a bag of snacks with you on a road trip? If you lived in the 19th century, you might have taken hardtack instead.

Teach your child Morse code, and a little bit of history that she'll pick up in a flash!

Washi Ningyo, otherwise known as Japanese paper dolls, make fantastic bookmarks! Encourage your child to read more with this delightful, origami-inspired doll.