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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.

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.

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

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

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.

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.

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

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

It's rhyme time! With this science fair project idea, your child will find out which words can be considered easy rhyming words, and why.

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

Check out this sweet recipe idea perfect for celebrating Dia de los Muertos.

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.

Making a freedom kite is a great way to show appreciation on Memorial Day or July 4th, and enjoy the summer sunshine with family.

Ancient Greek vases were not only utilitarian, they were also works of art. Jump into ancient cultures by decorating your own vase in classic Greek style.

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.

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!

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

Give your child a taste of life in Civil War era America by mixing up a batch of old-fashioned cornbread, adapted from a 19th century recipe.

Create a compass rose from sidewalk chalk in this summer geography project!

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

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.

Explore geometry, patterns, and history by creating pretty decorative Islamic tile art.

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

El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days

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

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

In this activity, your child will reference Matisse and also learn about patterns.