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Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

Learners can hone their cutting skills while making this patriotically festive star collage!

This easy craft project boosts counting and fine motor skills, and will help kids learn about Jewish culture.

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

This simple movement activity helps improve listening skills, as your child will be required to discriminate between sound and silence.

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

Celebrate Chinese New Year by teaching your child how to use chopsticks! She'll build her math and fine motor skills as she does this activity.

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

Enhance fourth-grade measurement making skills and social studies learning with this stitching project.

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

In this game, your child and his friends will need to use their observational skills as they try to figure out who's got the peanut!

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:

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

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.

Put your kid's Internet research skills to the test with this activity that will help him learn more about the history and cultural significance of fireworks.

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.

Learn how to count in Spanish. Your child will practice her numbers and build her reading skills while learning a bit about Latino culture along the way.

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.

Make a Korean paper fan! This activity is a great way to help your child explore different cultures while she builds her fine motor and arts and crafts skills.

Craft a patriotic placemat from red, white, and blue construction paper in this festive craft project!

This slightly tweaked version of "Hide and Go Seek" hones listening: a key skill for kindergarten.

Have your kid imagine that she is a TV personality who has been assigned to cover the Olympics.

Make this star-spangled greeting for the door to make all your guests feel welcome for the next patriotic holiday.

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

Your child is sure to find this colorful pink, green and white salad simply irresistible. For an added challenge, give your youngster a pair of chopsticks!

In this activity you and your child will learn about the African Americans that changed history in a fun quiz format.

Help your child create his own pinata in this fun and easy activity. Use paper mache and fingerpaint for a party pinata everyone will love.

Test the effects of left and right handedness on writing speed and penmanship. Volunteers hand-copy the same paragraph of text, which samples look neater?

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

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