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

Looking for a fun summer adventure? Learn what it was like to be a prospector during the California Gold Rush by panning for gold in a local creek.

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

Determine if gender affects the ability to identify different smells.

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

This science fair project idea examines whether boys and girls differ in reflexes.

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.

Tu B'Shevat is a Jewish holiday during which the "new year" for trees is celebrated. In this activity your child will paint a pot to grow his own plant.

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.

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

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

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

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

Pop up a pup tent, just like Civil War soldiers did on the battlefield.

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.

Celebrate the colors of the American flag with this playful craft project!

Here's a fun activity that will allow your child to express himself by making a flag of his own design, then writing an accompanying story.

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.

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

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".

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.

Car cluttered with old maps now that you've adopted GPS technology? Upcycle them in this fun geography craft.

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

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.

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

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.

Help your fourth grader design a first class postage stamp for a hero who stood up for the dignity of people from all walks of life.

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.