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

Here is a guide to making a felt busy book that's perfect for focusing on specific learning areas with your child.

Help your kindergartener review shapes - and build early reading skills - with this creative book project.

Create a counting book, in order from 1-30, to help your child figure out a variety of ways of recognizing and representing numbers.

Let your child play with scissors! Put them to work, creating a book that will keep them busy, and help them practice their letters, too.

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

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

Use a digital camera and some simple drawing supplies to help your kindergartener make a personalized letter-sound book.

Help your kindergartener practice counting from one to ten with this fun outdoor activity. Make a "My Backyard Counting Book" to review counting to ten.

Get your child thinking about time with this art project, where you'll create a fun book on his daily routine.

What if your child couldn't see the pictures of a picture book? In this activity, she'll listen to a story without looking at the images, and create her own.

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!

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

This activity uses the signs and words kids see around them every day, to create a book they can read on their own.

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

Craft a winter words alphabet book to celebrate this chilly season in this preschool-kindergarten arts and crafts activity.

The Kindergarten Personal Record Book makes measurement fun & active! Kids record their vital statistics from head to toe using unusual tools like paper clips.

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

In this activity, your child will learn to name the numbers from 1 through 5 and they'll practice their counting skills.

Learn how to count in Spanish. Your child will practice numbers and build reading skills while learning a bit about Latino culture along the way.

This simple bookmaking activity will introduce and reinforce alphabet and number recognition skills that have been taught at home or learned in preschool.

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

Pureed ripe peaches, vanilla yogurt, agave nectar, and juicy chunks of peach come together to form a refreshing pop that hits the spot on a hot summer day.

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

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

Build a peek-a-boo book and give your child a fun vocabulary and reading boost, on the fly!

Help your child learn about the various elements of a story by creating a play based on her favorite picture book.

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

Your kindergartener will make prints of his favorite fruits and vegetables and learn how to organize and assemble his very own book.

Let your kid experiment with textures among fabric and other materials that are smooth, rough, soft, or slippery—and then they'll make a texture book!