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Puppets can help preschoolers practice communication and conflict resolution.

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.

Practice counting to100 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.

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:

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

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

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

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

It's rhyme time! With this science fair project idea, your child will find out which words can be considered easy rhyming words, and why.

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

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

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

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!

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

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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

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.