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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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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

Children read a famous letter from the American Civil War, then write a response, in this thoughtful history activity.

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

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

Help your child put a new spin on her favorite myth by turning it into a mad lib! Guaranteed to bring the giggles, this fun activity also packs in the learning.

Spark your child's interest in current events by encouraging them to write a letter to the U.S. president.

Dive into U.S. colonial history by making a simple bottle gourd water cooler, crafted by colonists of Roanoke Island in the 16th century.

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.

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.

Explore what freedom and liberty mean to you this Fourth of July with a beautiful portrait collage!

This science fair project idea explores whether people have an innate feel for the passing of time from a few seconds to 20 minutes.

Make an initiation shield like the ones from the Kikuyu tribe in Africa for an art project.

Celebrate the holidays by making farolitos, paper lanterns with elaborate designs and historical roots.

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

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

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 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.

Washi Ningyo, otherwise known as Japanese paper dolls, make fantastic bookmarks! Encourage your child to read more with this delightful, origami-inspired doll.

Learn about the beautiful Indian art of Madhubani painting with this fun and creative project.

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

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

Help your fifth grader create an art card that celebrates the enduring values of Passover.

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!