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.

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

Show your teens the connection between making history and writing it by having them write, illustrate, and edit a newspaper from the past.

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

This Presidents Day, meet four of our country's most important heroes with this Mount Rushmore writing activity.

Bring history to life by helping your child create her own cartouche like the Egyptians did thousands of years ago.

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

This project, focused on the burial practices of ancient Egyptians, is a great addition to a social studies curriculum.

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

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

Spark your child's interest in ancient history by making a round shield like the ones carried by hoplites, Ancient Greek citizen-soldiers.

Help kids tap into their inner inventor by teaching them how to make peanut butter through trial, error, and lots of taste testing!

Help your teen delve into the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World; he'll come up with catchy slogans to advertise them in a pretend travel brochure.

Make your own architectural masterpiece with supplies from the pantry. Your temple may not be as impressive as the real thing, but it'll be twice as delicious!

Helping your child write their own "Thanksgiving Proclamation" can help them grasp the spirit of the day, and develop more of an attitude of gratitude.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Explore Pilgrim foodways with three heritage cornbread recipes.

Mix up a batch of molasses cookies, and you'll have a delicious chance to teach your child some math and social studies in the process!

Celebrate Hanukkah the old-fashioned way with an oil lantern. This craft is a perfect opportunity to teach your child the history of this special holiday.

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

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

The Declaration of Independence set forth inspiring ideals of liberty. If your kid had the chance today, would she sign the Declaration?

Give your child a taste of life in Civil War era America by mixing up a batch of old-fashioned cornbread, adapted from a 19th century recipe.

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