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Improve your kindergartener's vocabulary with this fun, quick, and simple improvisation activity! He'll love acting while practicing directionality words.

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

Your second grader can honor two renowned U.S. Presidents--Abraham Lincoln and George Washington--by crafting larger-than-life pennies and quarters!

Kids are acutely aware of what's "fair" and what's not. Here's a quirky way to teach your first grader the importance of voting and democracy.

Ancient tribes believed that these dolls kept worries away at night. Your 1st grader can make his own and learn about history, culture, and art in this activity

Introduce your first grader to our country's most famous leaders with an artsy info board full of facts, patriotic colors and coins!

Make this dragon relief with your first grader to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and teach her about an important part of Chinese culture.

Craft a patriotic placemat from red, white, and blue construction paper in this festive craft project!

Want to help your child learn more about his community while boosting creativity? Set up a post office play station right in your very own home!

In this activity, your child will make her own book of Swahili numbers filled with pictures of animals found throughout Africa.

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

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

This recipe provides a quicker, easier, and slightly healthier way to prepare this classic Louisiana Creole dish.

Help your child create his own pinata in this fun and easy activity. Use paper mache and fingerpaint for a party pinata everyone will love.

This easy craft project boosts counting and fine motor skills, and will help kids learn about Jewish culture.

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

Let your imagination take flight as you explore the beautiful continent of Africa! Do this fun writing activity with your child to honor Black History Month.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

Word color association is just a fancy way to talk about the way we connect colors with words.

Add a little island flavor to your next lazy afternoon with a Hawaiian arts and craft project!

Kids often ask, "how tall am I?" This science fair project seeks to determine how well kids can guess their own heights.

Encourage your child to learn about the Japanese culture as you make a traditional Japanese fan out of paper.

Help your child observe Veterans Day by having him create a paper chain American flag; it's a fun and crafty way to show your patriotism.

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

Kick off the spookiest time of the year with an art project inspired by the ancient Egyptian process of mummification.

Make sunomono, a simple Japanese cucumber vinegar salad, and kid-friendly chopsticks in this fun kindergarten activity.

Celebrate Chinese New Year by teaching your child how to use chopsticks! She'll build her math and fine motor skills as she does this activity.

Learn how to count in Spanish. Your child will practice her numbers and build her reading skills while learning a bit about Latino culture along the way.

Help kids tap into their inner inventor by teaching them how to make peanut butter through trial, error, and lots of taste testing!

Celebrate Irish history and culture this St. Patrick's Day by making a miniature version of the Blarney Stone!