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Celebrate Black History Month by having your child make her own version of a kente cloth after learning what the different colors on a kente cloth symbolize.

Let your child find her place among the politicians, the flyers, the debates and the countless television ads with a slogan and poster of her very own.

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.

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

Help your child to make a beautiful Africa mask to help her reinforce important spatial and compositional skills.

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

Your child can make her own Mexican tin art mirror with cardboard, a mirror, and an aluminum pan.

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

Help your high school revive some Renaissance history with art by making a silverpoint sketch. In this activity, make your own stylus and special paper.

Many of the world's most important historical documents were written with quill pens. Have your kid make his own quill pen and put his penmanship to the test!

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

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

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

Draw your own beautiful mandala with this easy technique that ensures symmetrical results every time!

This activity with add some fun and education to long car trips. Perfect for family vacations!

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

To pay tribute to the ancient Mexican art of mosaics, your child can craft a colorful mosaic using old magazines, a paper plate and lots of imagination.

How can your child learn about nations during the Olympics? By adopting 5 teams as his own! Here's how.

Shadow puppets are a traditional form of folk art that originated in ancient China. Help your child create his own puppet and put on a show!

Helping your child write their own "Thanksgiving Proclamation" can help them grasp the spirit of the day, and develop more of an attitude of gratitude.

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!

In honor of Black History Month, this activity encourages your child to focus on African American inventors, and do a little inventing of his own.

In Japan, ozoni is one of the main dishes eaten on New Year's Day. Here's how to make this delicious traditional dish with your child.

Retablos are a kind of Latin American folk art that blend personal and spiritual themes. Have your child create her own version of retablo artwork.

Make this African collar necklace for a lesson in crafting and African culture.

Washi Ningyo, otherwise known as Japanese paper dolls, make fantastic bookmarks! Encourage your child to read more with this delightful, origami-inspired doll.

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

Make an initiation shield like the ones from the Kikuyu tribe in Africa for an art project.

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

Take advantage of the fact that ink and water don't mix and introduce your kid to suminagashi, a Japanese form of art.