Use a basic tape recorder and some favorite books to help your first grader read smoothly--and make someone's day in the process!

Filling out forms can be a great learning experience for kids. Here's how to give your child some FORMal training.

Put old, worn-out picture books to work by constructing a book birdhouse, perfect for welcoming spring.

Use this interactive activity to help your third-grade child develop vocabulary skills and make a flipbook.

From a Twilight novel to required reading, kids will learn about preconceptions as they predict a book's story based on the cover.

Teach your fifth grader the ancient Japanese art of origami with this incredible origami balloon that uses just one piece of paper!

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.

With this hands-on activity, you'll show how fall colors are hidden in the leaf all year long!

Challenge your fourth grader to try to recreate the geography of her state using just flour, salt, and water.

Press pause on your speedy reader's latest adventure with an activity perfect for book lovers.

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

To practice place value, here's a fun hands-on activity to get your child flipping through place value with ease!

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Your kindergartener will learn basic math concepts and create a beautiful keepsake with this African flag reference book.

Encourage your child to begin scrapbooking or journaling with a personalized book covered in Washi tape that he'll want to use all the time!

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension activity!

Inspired by the children's book, Charlotte's Web by E.B. White, this card brings the spunky spider Charlotte to life!

Help your child construct and author a "sempuyo," a traditional Japanese book with accordion-style pages; she will develop her writing and fine motor skills.

Learn about the layers of the Earth and make a model! Create a earth layer book, cake, or clay diagram.

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.

Give your emerging writer a better feel for terminal punctuation with this activity that will have her mix up punctuation marks in a favorite childhood book.

Design a special recipe book just for mom. Kid-made and packed with recipes for some of mom's favorite dishes, it's sure to be a hit on Mother's Day.

Tea time is a chance for a lesson in etiquette while she plays. Quality time to read a book and talk about good manners.

Kids put their geography knowledge to the test in this balloon volley game inspired by the Dr. Seuss book "Oh the Places You'll Go".

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Celebrate spring with a cute cut-out bug button your child can make out of colorful felt and markers!

In this activity your child will make a coiling snake out of simple household materials, and also find out why they coil.

Your child will reflect on the term "beauty" and the things they are grateful for. They will read the book All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon and reflect on how focusing on the small and big things of beauty around them can benefit themselves and others.

Is your kid all bent out of shape? Try out some trendy dog yoga, or "doga," with your pet dog!