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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Help your child put a new spin on her favorite myth by turning it into a mad lib! Guaranteed to bring the giggles, this fun activity also packs in the learning.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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!