Help your child comprehend the past by using hands-on activities like this homemade lantern project.

In this activity, your child will learn how to make a drop spindle with a handy vegetable.

Your child can now recreate history by building his very own fortified castle.

Travel to ancient Mesopotamia with your kids by carving your own unique cuneiform cylinder seals.

Spark your child's interest in ancient history by making a round shield like the ones carried by hoplites, Ancient Greek citizen-soldiers.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

Make ancient Egypt come alive by showing kids how to make their own mini sarcophagus out of a shoe box.

Make your own architectural masterpiece with supplies from the pantry. Your temple may not be as impressive as the real thing, but it'll be twice as delicious!

Combine art, history and food with this unique project! Your child will make her own butters, and learn a little about Colonial history at the same time

Dive into U.S. colonial history by making a simple bottle gourd water cooler, crafted by colonists of Roanoke Island in the 16th century.