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

What are the rules of your home? Help your fifth grader draft a Family Constitution and even give it an aged look using soaked tea bags.

Using butcher paper, ink and charcoal, your child will explore ancient motifs such as buffalo, bison and hunters by creating her very own cave painting.

Help your fifth grader bring the magnificent spirit of Rome to a modern day, personalized clay coin.

Help your fifth grader embrace the roots--literally--of Mother's Day by growing carnations to honor mothers in you family's history.

In this activity, your child will reference Matisse and also learn about patterns.

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.

What could be more fun than doing sidewalk art? How about making your own colored sidewalk chalk!

On Martin Luther King Day, help your third grader create an original "scratch art" card to thank a person who has made a difference in his life.

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

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.

The words of great thinkers throughout the ages have changed the course of history. Have your kid find an inspiring quote and create a work of art around it.

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.

Enhance fourth-grade measurement making skills and social studies learning with this stitching project.

Teach your child Morse code, and a little bit of history that she'll pick up in a flash!

Pop up a pup tent, just like Civil War soldiers did on the battlefield.

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

Explore history and prepare for backyard battle with this samurai helmet craft.

Help your kid keep track of all the developments that led to the American Revolution, by portraying the steps visually and literally!

Civil War soldiers didn't take their wives with them to the battlefield, but they took along a piece of home: little sewing kits called "housewives".

An ancient form of writing gets new life in an activity designed to help your child read understand what life was like for early Native Americans.

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

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Inspire young anthropologists with this 5th grade art project: make patterned pottery in the Anasazi style! All you need are a paper plate and markers to start.

With a handful of craft supplies, your fourth grader can capture some of the artistic magic of the ancient Maya.

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

Have you ever taken a bag of snacks with you on a road trip? If you lived in the 19th century, you might have taken hardtack instead.

Learn an ancient craft with this introduction to weaving. A great tie-in for kids learning about ancient cultures.

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