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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.

Try this recipe with your child and explore Ethiopia through one of its dietary staples: injera, or flat bread!

Take a stab at 18th century American cooking with your kids by following this tasty recipe from one of the first colonial cookbooks.

This Labor Day, encourage your child to learn more about the different tools and supplies found in a doctor's bag by having her create one of her own!

Help your child learn about the world through this 3rd-4th grade geography activity: start a postcard collection and mark where they came from on a world map.

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

Give your second-grader insight into the Huichol culture of Mexico with this arts and craft activity by creating an ojo de Dios (eye of God), or yarn weaving.

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.

Teach your child about Chinese New Year by creating a dragon float inspired by the brilliant traditional ones seen in Chinese new year parades.

When it comes to helping your third grader manage a school backpack, small steps now bring big payoffs later.

Teach your first or second grader about an important Mexican holiday, the Day of the Dead, with this traditional skeleton mask made out of a paper plate.

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:

Help your second grader celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King with this rainbow table mat.

Help your third grader learn time zones with this fun map activity!

Make an initiation shield like the ones from the Kikuyu tribe in Africa for an art project.

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 second grader to a fun Mexican custom by showing her how to make papel picado, a beautiful creation of cut-out tissue paper.

On Martin Luther King Day, help your third grader create an original "scratch art" card to thank a person who has made a difference in his life.

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

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

This November, it's elephant versus donkey! Does your third grader understand the meaning behind the animals political parties choose to represent them?

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!

Make Korean vegetable pancakes with your child! This dish is delicious way to get your child cooking as you introduce her to recipes from different cultures.

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.