Recipes around the world: Search the newspaper for recipes from other countries.

Tourist brochures: Check out the entertainment section, look for information about local museums, water parks, zoos, historical parks, theme parks. Have your child  build brochures advertising favorite tourist spots.

Products map: Have child build a mural picturing all the products that are produced in other countries and shipped into the United States. Use information and photographs from the newspaper to develop the murals.

United States-Merchant to the world: Using a world map, have the child mark with arrows the major products that leave the United States and move into other countries. Use the newspaper as a source for this information.

Plant trivia cards: Create a set of trivia flashcards of plants and trees, include the local name, scientific name, and description of the plant or tree

Dream vacations: Use the Travel pages to plan your dream vacation. Use ads to figure out the costs. Draw a map and chart out the stops on your trip.

Comic dialogues: Cut out comic strips from the newspaper. Cut out the dialogue balloons and paste the drawings to white paper. Kids then study the drawings and decide what the characters are saying. They write the new dialogue into the balloons.