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

Your child will learn a whole alphabet of different jobs while they complete this brain-teaser chart just in time to celebrate Labor Day!

Explore the world from your own home by conducting research about other cultures with your 4th grade child.

Discover whether the color of text correlates with ease and speed of reading.

Take a stab at 18th century American cooking with your kids by following this tasty recipe from one of the first colonial cookbooks.

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.

Civil War soldiers didn't take their wives with them to the battlefield, but they took along a piece of home: little sewing kits called "housewives".

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

Enjoy the fragrant scents of the holiday season with this pomander activity. A perfect arts and crafts project for preschool or kindergarten age children.

This dreidel ornament makes a sparkling spinning top out of popsicle sticks. Make this dreidel ornament and get ready for Hanukkah.

This project examines the phenomenon of using a mirror to trick a person's brain into experiencing sensations in body parts not actually affected.

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.

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

Celebrate Constitution Day by learning the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution!

Tell your child you want to work on kindergarten readiness skills and she's not likely to jump up and clap. But turn it into a game and it's a different story.

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!

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

This experiment tests which gender is better at catching how a magician performs his tricks.

This experiment explores how listening in to a one-sided conversation affects concentration.

Have you ever taken a bag of snacks with you on a road trip? If you lived in the 19th century, you might have taken hardtack instead.

Introduce your kid to abstract art with this painting activity. It's the perfect way to engage a kinesthetic learner and spark an interest in art history!

This Haggadah scroll activity is great for getting kids to practice handwriting, but it will also get them thinking about the meaning behind Passover.

This activity will give pre-readers practice building a story. And it's silly fun, too!

Let your child find her place among the politicians, the flyers, the debates and the countless television ads with a slogan and poster of her very own.

Play loteria, a Mexican board game! Help your child make this fun and festive game to help her build her vocabulary and have a blast while she's at it.

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.

In this activity, kids learn a little about Japanese culture by making their own windsock in the shape of a koi fish.

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.

Help middle schoolers use maps, math, and history for some Fourth of July fun.

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