Social Studies Activities

This slightly tweaked version of "Hide and Go Seek" hones listening: a key skill for kindergarten.

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

In this game, your child and his friends will need to use their observational skills as they try to figure out who's got the peanut!

This Thanksgiving, try playing this fun Native American game with the whole family.

Pilgrim games are fun for the whole family before and after Thanksgiving dinner. These Pilgrim games take your family outdoors on for fun, traditional games.

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

Introduce your fifth grader (and friends) to a unique Jewish tradition by paying homage to the Maccabiah games by engaging them in their own makeshift games!

Inspire your fifth grader to explore a new culture and determine her New Year's fortune by playing this German wax dripping game.

This Easter, try putting on a guided family scavenger hunt to help your kindergartener track down the Easter eggs.

Teach your child about the importance and meaning behind bowing in Asian cultures and help her expand her cultural horizons with this fun activity.

Kids put their geography knowledge to the test in this balloon volley game inspired by the Dr. Seuss book "Oh the Places You'll Go".

Show your kid how to put a new spin on an old classic with this fun party game.

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

What better way to remember the achievements of past U.S. Presidents than with a game of memory!

Practice multiplication facts and geography at the same time in this fun third grade math card game.

Your little preschool elf will develop some important fine motor skills while creating an entertaining game: Pin the Star on the Christmas Tree!

Horse chestnuts are inedible, but British children found a fun use for them around the 1840s by turning them into a game called Conkers.

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!

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

Test your kid's knowledge of presidents one through forty-four with this fun and educational matching game!

Teach your child about the importance of Labor Day by helping her learn about the different hats that are worn by workers in various occupations.

Learning to count can be pretty tough. Have your child play this game with you or a friend and watch her quickly become a master counter.