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Help your children practice their presentation skills by helping them create their very own show called "The Daily News."

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.

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.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Introduce your child to baking with traditional Hamantaschen, or jam-filled buttery cookies that are usually made for Purim.

Batik is a traditional Indonesian craft, which uses a technique of drawing wax on fabric to create patterns before dying.

Based upon traditional Indonesian Wayang puppets; kids will make their very own puppet in this activity, with movable arms that can be operated with sticks.

In Muslim culture, the ninth month of the calendar year is a celebration called Ramadan. Make badam sharbat, a traditional drink made during Ramadan!

Petanque, a traditional French lawn game, is a wonderful activity to entertain groups of kids and help them learn a little bit about other cultures.

Your child can learn more about traditional Irish cooking this St. Patrickâs Day by making some apple barley pudding â a real tasty treat!

Using aluminum is a great way to recycle and make some shiny ornaments borrowing from this traditional Mexican art form. Here's an easy kids' activity!

Put a spin on traditional salad by tossing in a few toothpicks! You and your child will have a bast making these healthy, bite-sized treats.

Introduce your fourth grader to the deliciousness that can come out of the kitchen by helping him make these sugary traditional Mexican cookies, or biscochitos.

Embroidery ain't your grandma's art anymore...it can be adapted to a number of cool designs Jazz up a traditional fabric embellishment with sparkly beads!

Encourage your child to take ownership of a plant by creating a care plan and following it over the course of a couple of weeks.

How many ways can Christmas fun "add up"? Download this fourth grade math worksheet and find out!

In this experiment, students find out what happens when a less-dense fluid interacts with a denser one, replicating the effect of cooler solid rock on magma.

The ability to identify number patterns is one of the building blocks to success in higher-level math and this game is the perfect way to practice.

Check out this fun and easy-to-play guessing game that will build your child's geometry vocabulary.

In this activity, your child will reflect on how adults can learn from kids. They will watch a TED Talk presented by a 12-year-old girl about the power of young people’s ideas and teachings, and they will generate some of their own unique ideas.

By taking math on a shopping trip your child will be practicing rounding, estimation and addition with a with a hands-on method.

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

In this activity, your child will reflect on one role model in their life or research one historical figure that has displayed perseverance. Then, they will create a slideshow presentation or poster that defines and illustrates perseverance.

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

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

Teach your little one to appreciate all the best things in life with a keepsake Thanksgiving plate.

Unlike other seed sprouting projects, this one allows kids to compare five different sprouts (either 5 herbs or 5 flowers) by watching them grow in a glove.

Have your child build a model of a coral polyp, one of the tiny animals that composes a coral reef.

Celebrate autumn with a seasonal bash. Welcome the fall with a festive party for your little one and her friends, full of crafts, snacks and fun games.

Celebrate Kwanzaa with your fourth grader, or introduce them to a new cultural practice, by showing them how to weave a Kwanzaa mat out of an ordinary paper bag!