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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.

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

Here's a simple activity to reinforce your fourth grader's study of her home state and help her make a pretty keepsake.

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.

Play loteria, a Mexican board game! Help your child make this fun and festive game to help her build her vocabulary and have a blast while she's at it.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Your first or second grader will delight in creating multi-colored confetti egg smashers, traditional in Mexico, called cascarones!

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

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

Here's a fun activity that will allow your child to express himself by making a flag of his own design, then writing an accompanying story.

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.

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.

Teach your first or second grader about an important Mexican holiday, the Day of the Dead, with this traditional skeleton mask made out of a paper plate.

Your child will create their very own traditional Indian Toran wall hanging using construction paper, yarn and paint.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

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

Learn whether writing things down really makes things easier to remember.

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.

Make ancient Egypt come alive by showing kids how to make their own mini sarcophagus out of a shoe box.

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

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

Ancient Greek vases were not only utilitarian, they were also works of art. Jump into ancient cultures by decorating your own vase in classic Greek style.

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

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

Craft like the Colombians did in ancient times and make these line drawings out of twine, rope, or yarn.