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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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!

Combine music, history and craft by making a Native American instrument of your own

Help your high school revive some Renaissance history with art by making a silverpoint sketch. In this activity, make your own stylus and special paper.

In this activity, your child will reference Matisse and also learn about patterns.

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

Do lefties just write different or are their brains different? This science project has students explore what it means to be left handed.

In honor of Black History Month, this activity encourages your child to focus on African American inventors, and do a little inventing of his own.

Science fair project which determines whether people are more likely to follow rules if they are easy to understand.

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

Ancient Greek vases were not only utilitarian, they were also works of art. Jump into ancient cultures by decorating your own vase in classic Greek style.

The words of great thinkers throughout the ages have changed the course of history. Have your kid find an inspiring quote and create a work of art around it.

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!