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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Challenge your fourth grader to try to recreate the geography of her state using just flour, salt, and water.

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.

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:

Here's a simple activity to reinforce your fourth grader's study of her home state and help her make a pretty keepsake.

Get started on an ofrenda for Dia de los Muertos with this easy edible sugar skull project.

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

Promote your child's appreciation for Jackie Robinson, an important figure in African-American history, by having your child create a baseball card!

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

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

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

Expand your child's geographic awareness with these fun and easy map lessons.

Sometimes a sandwich is just ho hum boring. Help your kid make lunch fun by threading her favorite ingredients on a skewer for a quick and easy sandwich kabob.

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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