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

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

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

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

Retablos are a kind of Latin American folk art that blend personal and spiritual themes. Have your child create her own version of retablo artwork.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Teach kids about a fun way they can remember this more efficiently- the power of mnemonics. Kids will be amazed.

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

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

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.

Have you ever taken a bag of snacks with you on a road trip? If you lived in the 19th century, you might have taken hardtack instead.

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

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.

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

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

This science fair project idea measures out the sugar of various foods and find out whether people can correctly determine how much sugar is in common foods.

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.

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