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Help your child comprehend the past by using hands-on activities like this homemade lantern project.

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.

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.

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

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".

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

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

Have you ever taken a bag of snacks with you on a road trip? If you lived in the 19th century, you might have taken hardtack instead.

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.

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

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

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

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

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

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.

In this activity, your child will reference Matisse and also learn about patterns.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Teach your child Morse code, and a little bit of history that she'll pick up in a flash!

Pop up a pup tent, just like Civil War soldiers did on the battlefield.

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

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

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

An ancient form of writing gets new life in an activity designed to help your child read understand what life was like for early Native Americans.

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

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.

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