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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.

Challenge your fourth grader to try to recreate the geography of her state using just flour, salt, and water.

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

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.

Your child will create their very own traditional Indian Toran wall hanging using construction paper, yarn and paint.

What are the rules of your home? Help your fifth grader draft a Family Constitution and even give it an aged look using soaked tea bags.

To pay tribute to the ancient Mexican art of mosaics, your child can craft a colorful mosaic using old magazines, a paper plate and lots of imagination.

Using butcher paper, ink and charcoal, your child will explore ancient motifs such as buffalo, bison and hunters by creating her very own cave painting.

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

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

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

Civil War soldiers didn't take their wives with them to the battlefield, but they took along a piece of home: little sewing kits called "housewives".

Draw your own beautiful mandala with this easy technique that ensures symmetrical results every time!

Help your fifth grader embrace the roots--literally--of Mother's Day by growing carnations to honor mothers in you family's history.

Shadow puppets are a traditional form of folk art that originated in ancient China. Help your child create his own puppet and put on a show!

This science fair project idea explores how far the âdanger zoneâ is from different types of caution signs.

This science fair project idea explores whether cats can be trained in the same way that dogs can.

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!

Learn about the architecture of Asia by building your very own model of a pagoda!

Encourage your child to memorize the items on the Seder plate and what they symbolize with this artsy activity.

Your child can now recreate history by building his very own fortified castle.

Washi Ningyo, otherwise known as Japanese paper dolls, make fantastic bookmarks! Encourage your child to read more with this delightful, origami-inspired doll.

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

Have you ever taken a bag of snacks with you on a road trip? If you lived in the 19th century, you might have taken hardtack instead.

In Colonial times, fixing a chair was a lot easier than making one! Any fifth-grader can wrap up a mirror or photo frame the same way Colonists caned chairs.

Test your kid's knowledge of presidents one through forty-four with this fun and educational matching game!

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

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

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

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!