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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.

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

How can your child learn about nations during the Olympics? By adopting 5 teams as his own! Here's how.

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

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

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.

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

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.

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.

Bring historical figures alive with this fun family activity! Your child will plan a founding fathers feast by researching historical figures.

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.

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

Many of the world's most important historical documents were written with quill pens. Have your kid make his own quill pen and put his penmanship to the test!

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

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

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

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.

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

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

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

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