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

Celebrate Dia de los Muertos by baking pan de muerto. In this 5th-6th grade activity, your child will explore another culture while learning about baking.

Inspire young anthropologists with this 5th grade art project: make patterned pottery in the Anasazi style! All you need are a paper plate and markers to start.

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

Help your fifth grader create an art card that celebrates the enduring values of Passover.

Liven up your sixth grader's study of world geography with these three fun challenges.

Help your fifth grader embrace the roots--literally--of Mother's Day by growing carnations to honor mothers in you family's history.

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

What are the rules of your home? Help your fifth grader draft a Family Constitution and even give it an aged look using soaked tea bags.

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!

Inspire your fifth grader to explore a new culture and determine her New Year's fortune by playing this German wax dripping game.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

This science project has students study a group of volunteer liars actively lying to study the behavior of a lie. Students see if they can figure out the truth.

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

This science fair project idea measures out the sugar of various foods and find out whether people can correctly determine how much sugar is in common foods.

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

This science project allows students to study the psychology of happiness.

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.

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.

This science fair project idea explores whether people have an innate feel for the passing of time from a few seconds to 20 minutes.

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

Draw your own beautiful mandala with this easy technique that ensures symmetrical results every time!

This science project encourages students to investigate the Mozart Effect, the idea that classical music promotes learning.

This science fair project teaches kids experimental design and how to test if subjects can really sense if they are being watched.

Science fair project which determines whether people are more likely to follow rules if they are easy to understand.