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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

Many of the world's most important historical documents were written with quill pens.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!

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

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

Explore what freedom and liberty mean to you this Fourth of July with a beautiful portrait collage!