Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

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!

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

This science fair project idea examines whether boys and girls differ in reflexes.

Bring historical figures alive with this fun family activity! Your child will plan a founding fathers feast by researching historical figures.

Helping your child write their own "Thanksgiving Proclamation" can help them grasp the spirit of the day, and develop more of an attitude of gratitude.

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!

Travel to ancient Mesopotamia with your kids by carving your own unique cuneiform cylinder seals.

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

Next time you're headed out on the road with your fourth grader, try this alphabet-geography game that the whole family can play.

Practice math and social studies skills with this fun game based on the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

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!

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

Inspire your fifth grader to explore a new culture and determine her New Year's fortune by playing this German wax dripping game.

El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days

Make sourdough bread...and learn some colonial history and modern science in the process!

Let your child find her place among the politicians, the flyers, the debates and the countless television ads with a slogan and poster of her very own.

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.

Make this African collar necklace for a lesson in crafting and African culture.

This activity with add some fun and education to long car trips. Perfect for family vacations!

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

Have your kid imagine that she is a TV personality who has been assigned to cover the Olympics.

This science fair project idea explores whether color affects a person's emotional state.

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

This science fair project teaches kids experimental design and how to test if subjects can really sense if they are being watched.

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

This science project has students study a group of volunteer liars actively lying to study the behavior of a lie. Students see if they can figure out the truth.

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.

Your child is sure to find this colorful pink, green and white salad simply irresistible. For an added challenge, give your youngster a pair of chopsticks!

Help your fifth grader bring the magnificent spirit of Rome to a modern day, personalized clay coin.