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!

Bake domino cookies and spark your child's interest in traditional games. This baking activity is great for 5th-6th grade children.

In this real-world exercise about the Teal Pumpkin Project, your child will create a persuasive poster to spread the word about the project in the hopes of convincing people to offer non-food trinkets this Halloween season.

Encourage the brain-body connection in your child with movement games. This activity will decide who’s got the better moves, throughout the ages of music!

Want a word game to play? How about just a fun way to spend the afternoon? Get creative thinking going and have fun with vocabulary!

Leadership is a word that can hold many meanings. In this activity, your child will define the word "leadership," learn more about a leader they admire, and reflect on their leadership. Finally, your child will reflect on how they too are a leader!

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

In this social emotional learning activity, you will help your child practice mindfulness of emotions, guiding them to create a word search to understand and explain feeling words.

Introduce your child to the world of kite flying with Kite Frisbee, a great game that develops her kite flying and Frisbee playing abilities at the same time.

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.

Use muffin tins to create a simple, affordable and fun game to help your child practice their vocabulary!

Here's a game your child is sure to love playing with her friends: French Cricket. Just grab a baseball bat and a tennis ball, and you're set.

Cool down this summer and stay active, too, with a wet clothes relay! 

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

Want to ensure that your child's math knowledge stays sharp? This mean, median, and mode game is the perfect way to reinforce these essential math concepts.

Here's an interactive, fast-paced game that will make your fifth grader feel more comfortable with simple equations.

In this activity, your child gets to peek behind the curtain of puzzle making as they create their very own "Spot the Differences" game!

In this project students experiment with making music using only glasses of water.

Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

This science fair project idea investigates how optical distances change the apparent size of an object as seen through a magnifying lens.

The human knot game is a perfect team-building exercise and a fun activity that's sure to bring lots of laughs along the way.

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

Turn any sunny summer day into a fun and special occasion by having a watermelon seed spitting contest!

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

The objective of this science fair project idea is to determine if sound travels best through the air, water or a solid.

Not every poem needs to be about leaves and love. If your fifth grader is more attached to his phone or computer, introduce him to the apostrophe poem.

Explore the math concept of probability with your fifth grader on "lucky" St. Patrick's day this year!

Help your child create a rebus message for a unique Father's Day card or poster; it's like a collage and encoded message all in one!