Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

When it comes to helping your third grader manage a school backpack, small steps now bring big payoffs later.

Practice early social studies skills and get your child excited about the new school year with this fun activity.

Help your child learn about the world through this 3rd-4th grade geography activity: start a postcard collection and mark where they came from on a world map.

Introduce your second grader to a fun Mexican custom by showing her how to make papel picado, a beautiful creation of cut-out tissue paper.

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

Make this dragon relief with your first grader to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and teach her about an important part of Chinese culture.

Help your second grader celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King with this rainbow table mat.

Kids are acutely aware of what's "fair" and what's not. Here's a quirky way to teach your first grader the importance of voting and democracy.

On Martin Luther King Day, help your third grader create an original "scratch art" card to thank a person who has made a difference in his life.

Give your second-grader insight into the Huichol culture of Mexico with this arts and craft activity by creating an ojo de Dios (eye of God), or yarn weaving.

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

Your first or second grader will delight in creating multi-colored confetti egg smashers, traditional in Mexico, called cascarones!

Help your third grader learn time zones with this fun map activity!

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

Teach your first or second grader about an important Mexican holiday, the Day of the Dead, with this traditional skeleton mask made out of a paper plate.

Ancient tribes believed that these dolls kept worries away at night. Your 1st grader can make his own and learn about history, culture, and art in this activity

Your second grader can honor two renowned U.S. Presidents--Abraham Lincoln and George Washington--by crafting larger-than-life pennies and quarters!

Celebrate the colors of the American flag with this playful craft project!

Here's a fun activity that will allow your child to express himself by making a flag of his own design, then writing an accompanying story.

Encourage your child to learn about the Japanese culture as you make a traditional Japanese fan out of paper.

Celebrate Hanukkah the old-fashioned way with an oil lantern. This craft is a perfect opportunity to teach your child the history of this special holiday.

Show your patriotism on the next great American holiday by making a shooting star spangled banner that's reminiscent of the American flag.

Learn about sound physics and do a survey experiment to explore the difference between sound and noise in this science project.

This November, it's elephant versus donkey! Does your third grader understand the meaning behind the animals political parties choose to represent them?

Introduce your first grader to our country's most famous leaders with an artsy info board full of facts, patriotic colors and coins!

Make Korean vegetable pancakes with your child! This dish is delicious way to get your child cooking as you introduce her to recipes from different cultures.

This project examines whether people's taste perception is influenced by what they see.

Help your child make a recycling poster for your household and teach them how to take care of the environment!

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.