Physical touch through tapping and hugging can be a wonderful way to regulate emotions. In this social emotional learning activity, your child will explore the power of tapping or hugging to help them calm down and relieve feelings of stress or anxiety.

Construction paper, scissors, markers and glue are all your child needs to make these gruesomely whimsical monster bookmarks.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

Using beautiful oil pastels and their own wild imagination, your child will come up with their own spooky, spectacular, or spine-tingling monster.

Help your children practice their presentation skills by helping them create their very own show called "The Daily News."

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

Children will deepen their understanding of global citizenship and create a collage that illustrates all of the ways many communities are connected.

This science fair project idea discovers whether there are some objects that do not fall at a constant rate.

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

Give your child an American history lesson as you create a colorful mini totem pole!

For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

Support your first grader's interest in reading with this decorative bookmark that illustrates a favorite scene from a loved book.

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

This hands-on activity practices skip counting, a key first grade math skill. But it's silly fun!

This Haggadah scroll activity is great for getting kids to practice handwriting, but it will also get them thinking about the meaning behind Passover.

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

This science fair project idea demonstrates how air resistance contributes to denser objects falling faster than less dense objects.

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

Boost creativity with this simple activity where kids make up biographies of people they find in old magazines.

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

Geared toward kindergarten and first grade learners, The Weather Inside is a fun activity to help help children understand and process their emotions in a healthy way.

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.