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Practice early social studies skills and get your child excited about the new school year with this fun activity.

Have your kid create a chart of job titles. It's a great way to get them to recognize the people whose efforts benefit the community.

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:

Summer is a good time to teach children about other kinds of community helpers, such as lifeguards, forest rangers, and librarians. This activity is a fun way to get them introduced!

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

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

Nothing says party like a bright and bursting piÃata! Create your own mini festive centerpiece with paper towel rolls and ribbons.

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.

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!

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

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

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

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

Enjoy the fragrant scents of the holiday season with this pomander activity. A perfect arts and crafts project for preschool or kindergarten age children.

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

Expand your child's geographic awareness with these fun and easy map lessons.

Teaching your child some basic words in Spanish is a breeze at home, with this simple and fun activity that doesn't require special educational materials.

Encourage a spirit of giving and sharing with this meaningful tzedakah box craft project. 

Whether you're teaching your kid about this important cultural art form or simply looking for a fun project, sandpainting is a fun activity you'll both enjoy.

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

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

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

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

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.

Make a garland of paper flags representing your child's favorite countries.

Puppets can help preschoolers practice communication and conflict resolution.

Help your child discover the difference between his wants and needs using this poster.

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

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

Tell the Purim story in a new way: By making a set of puppets out of an old deck of cards!