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Test your kid's knowledge of presidents one through forty-four with this fun and educational matching game!

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

In Colonial times, fixing a chair was a lot easier than making one! Any fifth-grader can wrap up a mirror or photo frame the same way Colonists caned chairs.

Explore Pilgrim foodways with three heritage cornbread recipes.

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This recipe provides a quicker, easier, and slightly healthier way to prepare this classic Louisiana Creole dish.

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.

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.

Help kids tap into their inner inventor by teaching them how to make peanut butter through trial, error, and lots of taste testing!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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".