Preschool - 4th Grade Social Studies Activities : Page 5

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.

This Fourth of July, play a fun history-inspired math and logic puzzle game for your kids to play!

Here's a great activity to help learners satisfy their snow play cravings in a cozy indoor setting!

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.

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

This construction paper activity helps your child to assemble a variety of emotions on a face so she can recognize how she and everyone around her is feeling.

How well can people recall what they have observed. Test your knowledge in this fun experiment.

Ancient tribes believed that these dolls kept worries away at night. Your 1st grader can make his own and learn about history, culture, and art in this activity

Get started on an ofrenda for Dia de los Muertos with this easy edible sugar skull project.

Encourage your child to learn about the Japanese culture as you make a traditional Japanese fan out of paper.

Add a little island flavor to your next lazy afternoon with a Hawaiian arts and craft project!

Tell your child you want to work on kindergarten readiness skills and she's not likely to jump up and clap. But turn it into a game and it's a different story.

Teach an important and often comical historical lesson with a prediction game that teaches youngsters about the fallibility of word-of-mouth talk.

Help your second grader celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King with this rainbow table mat.

With this activity, you'll create a family treasure...and reinforce social studies basics while you're at it!

Puppets can help preschoolers practice communication and conflict resolution.

It's rhyme time! With this science fair project idea, your child will find out which words can be considered easy rhyming words, and why.

Make this dragon relief with your first grader to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and teach her about an important part of Chinese culture.

Explore the world from your own home by conducting research about other cultures with your 4th grade child.

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

Teach your child about the importance of Labor Day by helping her learn about the different hats that are worn by workers in various occupations.

Put your kid's Internet research skills to the test with this activity that will help him learn more about the history and cultural significance of fireworks.

Explore African and Asian traditions with this recipe for homemade henna ink!

Write to a deployed soldier to help your child practice reading, writing, and get a better understanding of what it means to serve our country.

Free science fair project idea that examines the differences between cats and dogs. Analyze objective qualities rather than subjective ones.

Kick off the spookiest time of the year with an art project inspired by the ancient Egyptian process of mummification.

Step into the fantastic world of colors with a project that explores what shade you -- and your friends -- like best.

Car cluttered with old maps now that you've adopted GPS technology? Upcycle them in this fun geography craft.

Capture a bit of mythological magic with this clever sock craft!

Explore Pilgrim foodways with three heritage cornbread recipes.