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

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.

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

Many of the world's most important historical documents were written with quill pens.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!

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

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

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.

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.

Take advantage of the fact that ink and water don't mix and introduce your kid to suminagashi, a Japanese form of art.

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

This science project allows students to study the psychology of happiness.

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.

Science fair project which determines whether people are more likely to follow rules if they are easy to understand.

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.

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

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

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!

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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!

In this fun experiment, learn about brand awareness and the influence of media on children by testing logo recognition in different age groups.