Teach your child about Chinese New Year by creating a dragon float inspired by the brilliant traditional ones seen in Chinese new year parades.

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

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!

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

Explore history and prepare for backyard battle with this samurai helmet craft.

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

Learn about the architecture of Asia by building your very own model of a pagoda!

Improve your kindergartener's vocabulary with this fun, quick, and simple improvisation activity! He'll love acting while practicing directionality words.

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.

This project, focused on the burial practices of ancient Egyptians, is a great addition to a social studies curriculum.

Mix up a batch of molasses cookies, and you'll have a delicious chance to teach your child some math and social studies in the process!

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

Encourage your child to make a Chinese scroll painting as part of his world history or art studies, or just to pass the time on a weekend.

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

In honor of Black History Month, this activity encourages your child to focus on African American inventors, and do a little inventing of his own.

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.

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.

Learn an ancient craft with this introduction to weaving. A great tie-in for kids learning about ancient cultures.

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

This recipe provides a quicker, easier, and slightly healthier way to prepare this classic Louisiana Creole dish.

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

Help your kids map the "global footprint" of your family's grocery cart by investigating how far your food travels before landing on your dinner table.

Explore geometric shapes and pattern as your child makes her very own Hawaiian kapa cloth.

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Combine music, history and craft by making a Native American instrument of your own

With this activity, you'll create a family treasure...and reinforce social studies basics while you're at it!

Teach your child about the importance of Labor Day by helping her learn about the different hats that are worn by workers in various occupations.

Help your fourth grader design a first class postage stamp for a hero who stood up for the dignity of people from all walks of life.

During your next craft time, strike up the band with this homemade Chinese instrument.