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

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.

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.

In honor of Black History Month, this activity encourages your child to focus on African American inventors, and do a little inventing of his own.

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Pop up a pup tent, just like Civil War soldiers did on the battlefield.

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

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

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

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!

Celebrate Black History Month by having your child make her own version of a kente cloth after learning what the different colors on a kente cloth symbolize.

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.

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

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.

Being a kid is hard work. Soothe stresses and calm fears with this DIY Zen garden -- all you need is sand, stones and a shoebox.

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

Explore African and Asian traditions with this recipe for homemade henna ink!

Mix up a batch of molasses cookies, and you'll have a delicious chance to teach your child some math and social studies in the process!

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

This science fair project idea examines whether boys and girls differ in reflexes.

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

Help your child construct and author a "sempuyo," a traditional Japanese book with accordion-style pages; she will develop her writing and fine motor skills.

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

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

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

Help your child to make a beautiful Africa mask to help her reinforce important spatial and compositional skills.

Challenge your fourth grader to try to recreate the geography of her state using just flour, salt, and water.

Build a decorated box and fill it with research that can help you get to your dream location someday!

Conduct a mock interview with the President to teach your child about politics, the president and the world she lives in.

Free science fair project idea that examines the differences between cats and dogs. Analyze objective qualities rather than subjective ones.