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Play food isn't just for preschoolers! Help your child create a fun Passover craft that doubles as tea-party play food for younger siblings.

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.

This Fourth of July, play a fun history-inspired math and logic puzzle game for your kids to play!

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

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

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.

Kids put their geography knowledge to the test in this balloon volley game inspired by the Dr. Seuss book "Oh the Places You'll Go".

Helping your child write their own "Thanksgiving Proclamation" can help them grasp the spirit of the day, and develop more of an attitude of gratitude.

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

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.

An ancient form of writing gets new life in an activity designed to help your child read understand what life was like for early Native Americans.

Learn more about the fascinating folk art of Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs with this easy craft.

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

Create a yarn doll out of a few toothpicks and colorful string with this Guatemalan craft.

Explore Pilgrim foodways with three heritage cornbread recipes.

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

Mix up a batch of molasses cookies, and you'll have a delicious chance to teach your child some math and social studies in the process!

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.

Teach your child about the importance and meaning behind bowing in Asian cultures and help her expand her cultural horizons with this fun activity.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Is it a square or a circle? See if you can trick your friends with this zany science project!

Teach your child Morse code, and a little bit of history that she'll pick up in a flash!

How well can people recall what they have observed. Test your knowledge in this fun experiment.