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Explore Pilgrim foodways with three heritage cornbread recipes.

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".

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 reference Matisse and also learn about patterns.

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

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

Help middle schoolers use maps, math, and history for some Fourth of July fun.

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

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!

Looking for a fun summer adventure? Learn what it was like to be a prospector during the California Gold Rush by panning for gold in a local creek.

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.

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

Introduce your first grader to our country's most famous leaders with an artsy info board full of facts, patriotic colors and coins!

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.

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

Help your child appreciate grandparents, history, and societal changes while making a poster handmade, heartfelt grandparent's day craft.

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

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

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

Follow this Colonial recipe for candied rose petals, and share the sweets with friends, family or classmates.

Promote your child's appreciation for Jackie Robinson, an important figure in African-American history, by having your child create a baseball card!

Play Exquisite Corpse with your high schooler to give her a taste of French Surrealism while working collaboratively to create unique and funky pieces of art!

Celebrate Hanukkah the old-fashioned way with an oil lantern. This craft is a perfect opportunity to teach your child the history of this special holiday.

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 fourth grader design a first class postage stamp for a hero who stood up for the dignity of people from all walks of life.

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.

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

Help your second grader celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King with this rainbow table mat.

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

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