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Celebrate Mexican heritage and inspire creativity in your budding artist with this unique arts and crafts activity.

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.

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.

Help your child comprehend the past by using hands-on activities like this homemade lantern project.

Craft like the Colombians did in ancient times and make these line drawings out of twine, rope, or yarn.

Your child can create an interactive map of his neighborhood focusing on the different textures he finds!

Whether your child is celebrating a great American holiday or simply feeling patriotic, this american flag craft is sure to please your little artist.

Spark your child's interest in international sporting events by creating a banner of world flags.

Ignite your child's creativity by having them design their own clay version of an alebrije, a traditional fanciful creature like the ones made in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Make ancient Egypt come alive by showing kids how to make their own mini sarcophagus out of a shoe box.

Teach your first or second grader about an important Mexican holiday, the Day of the Dead, with this traditional skeleton mask made out of a paper plate.

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

Introduce your second grader to a fun Mexican custom by showing her how to make papel picado, a beautiful creation of cut-out tissue paper.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

What could be more fun than doing sidewalk art? How about making your own colored sidewalk chalk!

An "I Love You" book is a perfect gift for a very special friend on Valentine's Day. Our "I Love You" book shares the love in eight different languages.

In this activity, kids learn a little about Japanese culture by making their own windsock in the shape of a koi fish.

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

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.

Celebrate Hanukkah the old-fashioned way with an oil lantern. This craft is a perfect opportunity to teach your child the history of this special holiday.

This Kool-Aid tie-dye activity is a kid-friendly craft that never gets old. Learn how to make tie-dye shirts using assorted Kool-Aid flavors here.

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

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