Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

To help keep summer memories alive, have your fifth grader utilize their writing skills to create a summer book keepsake!

In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practice organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

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

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

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

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

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 book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

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.

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

Here's a great project to get your child on the right track towards writing well thought-out proposals.

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

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.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

Check out this hot project idea to culture bacteria and determine if the claims about the anti-bacterial properties of curry and cinnamon are true.

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

Help you child create an inspirational quote board out of foam that will motivate her to produce her best work and maintain a positive attitude.

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills! 

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.

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

This improv exercise helps actors learn how to recover if another actor forgets their lines or goes off script, but it can also be a rainy day activity!