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!

Taking a moment to pause, feel our breath, and to notice the things around us can support a heightened sense of focus and can bring kind attention to the present moment and to tasks at-hand. In this activity, your child will practice the STOP method and

Here's an activity that will get your child's attention with a back-to-school shopping spree. He'll use decimal skills to add, subtract, multiply, and divide!

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

Here's a fun activity that will have your child researching, collecting, and charting plant specimens from the neighborhood.

Bake domino cookies and spark your child's interest in traditional games. This baking activity is great for 5th-6th grade children.

This project uses science and art to help students learn and teach others about Earth's endangered and extinct species.

Encourage the brain-body connection in your child with movement games. This activity will decide who’s got the better moves, throughout the ages of music!

Competitors go head-to-head only this time it's a race to figure out the lowest common multiple of two numbers; an important step to working with fractions!

For a fun family activity to introduce your child to genetics, have your child go on a search for dominant and recessive family genes!

Glass is see-through, but usually you can still see that it is there. In this experiment, we use baby oil to make glass go completely invisible.

Put a flavorful twist on a classic dish, and make tortilla lasagna! All your favorite ingredients from traditional Mexican food will go into this creation.

The next time you and your fifth grader go on a hike, take along this key to figure out which common North American animal left a track along the river bank.

Want a word game to play? How about just a fun way to spend the afternoon? Get creative thinking going and have fun with vocabulary!

Want to ensure that your child's math knowledge stays sharp? This mean, median, and mode game is the perfect way to reinforce these essential math concepts.

Here's a game your child is sure to love playing with her friends: French Cricket. Just grab a baseball bat and a tennis ball, and you're set.

Cool down this summer and stay active, too, with a wet clothes relay! 

The human knot game is a perfect team-building exercise and a fun activity that's sure to bring lots of laughs along the way.

Introduce your child to the world of kite flying with Kite Frisbee, a great game that develops her kite flying and Frisbee playing abilities at the same time.

Petanque, a traditional French lawn game, is a wonderful activity to entertain groups of kids and help them learn a little bit about other cultures.

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

Find out which kind of bubble wrap fares best when put in impact.

Encourage your child to help with dinner preparations this holiday season! You can use this recipe for Christmas dinner or lunch, or for meals leading up to the holiday. This Christmas Wreath Salad recipe is simple enough for preschoolers to fifth graders

This St. Patrick's day, stretch your child's social studies and math skills with this fun, cooperative learning game.

Zombie cupcakes are baked goods that look as if they've been pulled fresh from a skull. Make zombie cupcakes this Halloween.

How can your child learn about nations during the Olympics? By adopting 5 teams as his own! Here's how.

Teach your fifth grader about the wonders of wind by making and observing this winter wind chime.

Be an inspector detective for a day in this fun mystery game that puts your child's powers of observation to the test. Perfect for a party or group gathering.

Science fair project in which you will start a fire from scratch without using matches or a lighter.

Challenge your kid to use his knowledge about percentages in this fun game. Just roll the dice and race to calculate the percentage.