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Bring a bit of the fun of Yuan Xiao Jie to your home with this lantern activity. Happy New Year!

Try this recipe with your child and explore Ethiopia through one of its dietary staples: injera, or flat bread!

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

This Labor Day, encourage your child to learn more about the different tools and supplies found in a doctor's bag by having her create one of her own!

Free science fair project idea that examines the differences between cats and dogs. Analyze objective qualities rather than subjective ones.

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

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

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

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

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

Help your child appreciate grandparents, history, and societal changes while making a poster handmade, heartfelt grandparent's day craft.

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.

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

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

Choose a destination and "race" your way there! This activity is a great for charting progress and motivation.

On Martin Luther King Day, help your third grader create an original "scratch art" card to thank a person who has made a difference in his life.

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.

Encourage a spirit of giving and sharing with this meaningful tzedakah box craft project. 

Learn about sound physics and do a survey experiment to explore the difference between sound and noise in this science project.

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

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

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

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

Help your child create her own version of a Moroccan lantern to give her room an Arabian nights feel!

Give your second-grader insight into the Huichol culture of Mexico with this arts and craft activity by creating an ojo de Dios (eye of God), or yarn weaving.

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.

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.

Make Korean vegetable pancakes with your child! This dish is delicious way to get your child cooking as you introduce her to recipes from different cultures.

Your child will look forward to lunchtime with this artistic reinterpretation of the same old cold lunch.

Help your second grader celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King with this rainbow table mat.