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.

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.

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

Do lefties just write different or are their brains different? This science project has students explore what it means to be left handed.

Few architectural features are as recognizable as the Russian onion dome. In this project, your kid will recreate the striking beauty of this roof-top marvel.

What are the benefits of good posture? Kids will learn about the cognitive effects of good posture through conducting and observing a controlled experiment.

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!

This experiment tests which gender is better at catching how a magician performs his tricks.

In this activity, your child will reference Matisse and also learn about patterns.

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

Help your kids map the "global footprint" of your family's grocery cart by investigating how far your food travels before landing on your dinner table.