Introduce your fifth grader (and friends) to a unique Jewish tradition by paying homage to the Maccabiah games by engaging them in their own makeshift games!

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

How can your child learn about nations during the Olympics? By adopting 5 teams as his own! Here's how.

Horse chestnuts are inedible, but British children found a fun use for them around the 1840s by turning them into a game called Conkers.

This science fair project idea explores whether people have an innate feel for the passing of time from a few seconds to 20 minutes.

Show your kid how to put a new spin on an old classic with this fun party game.

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

In this fun project, use a memory game to test various age groups and determine whether aging directly affects short-term memory loss.

Help your child put a new spin on her favorite myth by turning it into a mad lib! Guaranteed to bring the giggles, this fun activity also packs in the learning.

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

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.

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

Many of the world's most important historical documents were written with quill pens. Have your kid make his own quill pen and put his penmanship to the test!

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.

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

Get your creative kid into tasseography! The ancient art of reading tea leaves gets a modern update in this simplified version for youthful fortune tellers!

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.

Follow this Colonial recipe for candied rose petals, and share the sweets with friends, family or classmates.

Teach kids about a fun way they can remember this more efficiently- the power of mnemonics. Kids will be amazed.

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.

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