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Puppets can help preschoolers practice communication and conflict resolution.

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

Practice counting to100 independently with this American flag craft project! 

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

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

This Haggadah scroll activity is great for getting kids to practice handwriting, but it will also get them thinking about the meaning behind Passover.

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

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.

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:

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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!

Welcome the holiday season by making your own paper lantern. Learn about traditional light festivals from the United States with this fun, easy activity.

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

Teach an important and often comical historical lesson with a prediction game that teaches youngsters about the fallibility of word-of-mouth talk.

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

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!