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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.

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

Get your creative kid into tasseography! The ancient art of reading tea leaves gets a modern update in this simplified version for youthful fortune tellers!

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

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.

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

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

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.

Children read a famous letter from the American Civil War, then write a response, in this thoughtful history activity.

Follow this Colonial recipe for candied rose petals, and share the sweets with friends, family or classmates.

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

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!

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

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

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:

Check out this sweet recipe idea perfect for celebrating Dia de los Muertos.

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.

Making a freedom kite is a great way to show appreciation on Memorial Day or July 4th, and enjoy the summer sunshine with family.

Ancient Greek vases were not only utilitarian, they were also works of art. Jump into ancient cultures by decorating your own vase in classic Greek style.

In honor of Black History Month, this activity encourages your child to focus on African American inventors, and do a little inventing of his own.

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

This science fair project idea explores whether there is a connection to the color a person wears and the way their emotional state is perceived by others.

Give your child a taste of life in Civil War era America by mixing up a batch of old-fashioned cornbread, adapted from a 19th century recipe.

Explore what freedom and liberty mean to you this Fourth of July with a beautiful portrait collage!

This science fair project idea explores whether people have an innate feel for the passing of time from a few seconds to 20 minutes.

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