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.

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

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

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

Make sourdough bread...and learn some colonial history and modern science in the process!

Take a stab at 18th century American cooking with your kids by following this tasty recipe from one of the first colonial cookbooks.

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

Explore Pilgrim foodways with three heritage cornbread recipes.

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

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

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

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

Mix up a batch of molasses cookies, and you'll have a delicious chance to teach your child some math and social studies in the process!

Practice math and social studies skills with this fun game based on the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

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.

Capture a bit of mythological magic with this clever sock craft!

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

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.

This family project is a fun way to teach your child about her heritage and practice her geography.

Celebrate our nation's colonial history by making your very own weaving loom!

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".

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

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

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

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.

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

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

This Fourth of July, play a fun history-inspired math and logic puzzle game for your kids to play!