2nd - 5th Grade Social Studies Activities : Page 3

Try this recipe with your child and explore Ethiopia through one of its dietary staples: injera, or flat bread!

Jump into Japanese culture with your child by making your own calligraphy scroll. Try your hand at painting kanji on paper just like Zen masters of old!

Get started on an ofrenda for Dia de los Muertos with this easy edible sugar skull project.

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.

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.

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.

Explore Pilgrim foodways with three heritage cornbread recipes.

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

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

Have you ever wondered how many numbers most people can memorize? Test your friends to find out!

Learners can hone their cutting skills while making this patriotically festive star collage!

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

Celebrate African heritage by making an African flag banner. This fun, culturally-inspired art project is perfect for Black History Month.

Help your child construct and author a "sempuyo," a traditional Japanese book with accordion-style pages; she will develop her writing and fine motor skills.

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.

Help your kid keep track of all the developments that led to the American Revolution, by portraying the steps visually and literally!

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!

Your child will look forward to lunchtime with this artistic reinterpretation of the same old cold lunch.

Ignite your child's creativity by having them design their own clay version of an alebrije, a traditional fanciful creature like the ones made in Oaxaca, Mexico.

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.

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

This Labor Day, help your child explore various occupations by discussing the tools workers use on a daily basis at their jobs.

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

Inspire your fifth grader to explore a new culture and determine her New Year's fortune by playing this German wax dripping game.

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

This Haggadah scroll activity is great for getting kids to practice handwriting, but it will also get them thinking about the meaning behind Passover.

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.

Free science fair project idea that examines the differences between cats and dogs. Analyze objective qualities rather than subjective ones.

Celebrate the colors of the American flag with this playful craft project!

In this fun experiment, learn about brand awareness and the influence of media on children by testing logo recognition in different age groups.