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

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.

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

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

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

Help your kid keep track of all the developments that led to the American Revolution, by portraying the steps visually and literally!

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!

This science fair project idea examines how well individuals can remember a story they were told and how accurately they pass that story along.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Kokeshi dolls have been around since the 17th century, and now your child can recreate a piece of Japanese history and culture right at home.

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

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.

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

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 cats can be trained in the same way that dogs can.

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!