History Activities

Free tutorials and printables resources for fun, hands-on history activities for kids. Includes areas such as ancient history and U.S. history.

Hands-on activities for studying world history are the best way for your kids to get a deeper understanding of the country all around us.

Finding hands-on learning activities for older children can be very difficult. Here is a list of some of our favorites, inlcuding history and language arts.

History is my passion; I love history! And yet, I really don't like textbooks. Here are 30+ ways to teach history without a textbook, from books to cooking, and more!

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Very few middle school kids want to sit down and only read about history from a dry textbook. They want to get their hands dirty, build stuff, and really get a sense of what it was like to live during the time periods they’re studying. Don't make history boring - use hands-on projects and activities to make history fun. A week of fun and interactive ideas for middle school history.

We use a world explorers game for two players to learn about world explorers and the ways they were similar and different in their quests.

Add a little pizzazz to your lessons with some United States History Activities that your students will love!

This ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform activity is a fun, hands-on history experience. Become ancient scribes writing on clay tablets with reeds.