Elementary School History Activities : Page 2

This project, focused on the burial practices of ancient Egyptians, is a great addition to a social studies curriculum.

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

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.

Explore what freedom and liberty mean to you this Fourth of July with a beautiful portrait collage!

Combine music, history and craft by making a Native American instrument of your own

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

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.

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

Help your child put a new spin on her favorite myth by turning it into a mad lib! Guaranteed to bring the giggles, this fun activity also packs in the learning.

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.

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

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.

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

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

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

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

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.

Teach an important and often comical historical lesson with a prediction game that teaches youngsters about the fallibility of word-of-mouth talk.

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

Put your kid's Internet research skills to the test with this activity that will help him learn more about the history and cultural significance of fireworks.

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

Explore Pilgrim foodways with three heritage cornbread recipes.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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