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.

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

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

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

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

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

Help your fifth grader embrace the roots--literally--of Mother's Day by growing carnations to honor mothers in you family's history.

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

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

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

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!

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

What are the rules of your home? Help your fifth grader draft a Family Constitution and even give it an aged look using soaked tea bags.

Test your kid's knowledge of presidents one through forty-four with this fun and educational matching game!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Celebrate our nation's colonial history by making your very own weaving loom!

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

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!

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

Celebrate Black History Month by having your child make her own version of a kente cloth after learning what the different colors on a kente cloth symbolize.

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 examines whether boys and girls differ in reflexes.

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