Liven up your sixth grader's study of world geography with these three fun challenges.

Help your fifth grader trace your family's roots and interview all the living mothers to create a makeshift, 3-D family tree!

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

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.

This science fair project idea explores whether there is a connection to the color a person wears and the way their emotional state is perceived by others.

Being a kid is hard work. Soothe stresses and calm fears with this DIY Zen garden -- all you need is sand, stones and a shoebox.

This science fair project idea explores how far the âdanger zoneâ is from different types of caution signs.

Your child can make her own Mexican tin art mirror with cardboard, a mirror, and an aluminum pan.

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

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

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!

This science project encourages students to investigate the Mozart Effect, the idea that classical music promotes learning.

Inspire young anthropologists with this 5th grade art project: make patterned pottery in the Anasazi style! All you need are a paper plate and markers to start.

Many of the world's most important historical documents were written with quill pens. Have your kid make his own quill pen and put his penmanship to the test!

Your child can now recreate history by building his very own fortified castle.

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

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

What are the benefits of good posture? Kids will learn about the cognitive effects of good posture through conducting and observing a controlled experiment.

Science fair project which determines whether a person's taste in music is dictated by the key that the song is written in.

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

Draw your own beautiful mandala with this easy technique that ensures symmetrical results every time!

In Japan, ozoni is one of the main dishes eaten on New Year's Day. Here's how to make this delicious traditional dish with your child.

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

In this fun project, use a memory game to test various age groups and determine whether aging directly affects short-term memory loss.

In this activity, your child will learn how to make a drop spindle with a handy vegetable.

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

Celebrate Dia de los Muertos by baking pan de muerto. In this 5th-6th grade activity, your child will explore another culture while learning about baking.

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.

Help your child to make a beautiful Africa mask to help her reinforce important spatial and compositional skills.

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