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

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

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

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

Host a royal party full of "please and thank you" - even the queen would approve. Have a ball while your kids practice etiquette!

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:

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

What better way to remember the achievements of past U.S. Presidents than with a game of memory!

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

Tell the Purim story in a new way: By making a set of puppets out of an old deck of cards!

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

Have you ever wondered how many numbers most people can memorize? Test your friends to find out!

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.

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

Learn about the ancient art of Japanese calligraphy with this New Year's activity about kakizome.

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

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.

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

In this activity, your child will create a red envelope that can be filled with money to spread good will and ward off evil spirits in the New Year.

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.

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.

Make an initiation shield like the ones from the Kikuyu tribe in Africa for an art project.

During the Passover Seder, many Jewish families pour a cup of red wine for Elijah. This year, help your child create his own welcoming glass for Elijah.

Welcome the holiday season by making your own paper lantern. Learn about traditional light festivals from the United States with this fun, easy activity.

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

Teach an important and often comical historical lesson with a prediction game that teaches youngsters about the fallibility of word-of-mouth talk.

Have the children play a more active role in the Seder by helping them prepare paper puppets that represent the ten plagues.

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

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