Celebrate the holidays by making farolitos, paper lanterns with elaborate designs and historical roots.

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

Help your high school revive some Renaissance history with art by making a silverpoint sketch. In this activity, make your own stylus and special paper.

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.

To pay tribute to the ancient Mexican art of mosaics, your child can craft a colorful mosaic using old magazines, a paper plate and lots of imagination.

Take advantage of the fact that ink and water don't mix and introduce your kid to suminagashi, a Japanese form of art.

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

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.

Your child can now recreate history by building his very own fortified castle.

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.

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

Retablos are a kind of Latin American folk art that blend personal and spiritual themes. Have your child create her own version of retablo artwork.

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

Test your kid's knowledge of presidents one through forty-four with this fun and educational matching game!

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

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

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

Help your kid keep track of all the developments that led to the American Revolution, by portraying the steps visually and literally!

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.

Follow this Colonial recipe for candied rose petals, and share the sweets with friends, family or classmates.

Spark your child's interest in current events by encouraging them to write a letter to the U.S. president.

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!

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

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

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

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

Car cluttered with old maps now that you've adopted GPS technology? Upcycle them in this fun geography craft.

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

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

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.