This Labor Day, help your child explore various occupations by discussing the tools workers use on a daily basis at their jobs.

Puppets can help preschoolers practice communication and conflict resolution.

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

Practice counting to 100 independently with this American flag craft project! 

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

This family project is a fun way to teach your child about her heritage and practice her geography.

Host a royal party full of "please and thank you" - even the queen would approve. Have a ball while your kids practice etiquette!

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:

Learn about the ancient art of Japanese calligraphy with this New Year's activity about kakizome.

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

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

Encourage your child to make a Chinese scroll painting as part of his world history or art studies, or just to pass the time on a weekend.

Teach your child about the importance of Labor Day by helping her learn about the different hats that are worn by workers in various occupations.

During your next craft time, strike up the band with this homemade Chinese instrument.

Chinese New Year is a time when many different luck-bringing rituals are performed. In this activity your child will create a lucky trinket.

Teach your kindergartener a little about Mexican culture by giving him a festive, no-cook lesson in how to make "aguas frescas," or seasonal fruit drinks.

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

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.

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.

In this activity, your child will create a red envelope that can be filled with money to spread good will and ward off evil spirits in the New Year.

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

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

During the Passover Seder, many Jewish families pour a cup of red wine for Elijah. This year, help your child create his own welcoming glass for Elijah.

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!

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

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

Have the children play a more active role in the Seder by helping them prepare paper puppets that represent the ten plagues.

Your first or second grader will delight in creating multi-colored confetti egg smashers, traditional in Mexico, called cascarones!

Choose a destination and "race" your way there! This activity is a great for charting progress and motivation.