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

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!

Take a stab at 18th century American cooking with your kids by following this tasty recipe from one of the first colonial cookbooks.

Try this recipe with your child and explore Ethiopia through one of its dietary staples: injera, or flat bread!

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 family project is a fun way to teach your child about her heritage and practice her geography.

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.

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

Make an initiation shield like the ones from the Kikuyu tribe in Africa for an art 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.

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

Learn an ancient craft with this introduction to weaving. A great tie-in for kids learning about ancient cultures.

With this activity, you'll create a family treasure...and reinforce social studies basics while you're at it!

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

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.

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

An "I Love You" book is a perfect gift for a very special friend on Valentine's Day. Our "I Love You" book shares the love in eight different languages.

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

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.

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.

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

What could be more fun than doing sidewalk art? How about making your own colored sidewalk chalk!

This project examines whether people's taste perception is influenced by what they see.

On Martin Luther King Day, help your third grader create an original "scratch art" card to thank a person who has made a difference in his life.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

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.

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.

Have you ever wondered how many numbers most people can memorize? Test your friends to find out!

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

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