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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Help your preschooler craft her very own announcement to celebrate the special transition to "big kids" school!

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!

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

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

Children who know the names and sounds of letters when they enter school, learn to read sooner. This activity uses a clothesline to work on alphabet sounds.

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

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

Teaching kids that stories have an order is important, despite how fun it is to listen to the tale of the tomato that put on his pajamas and went for a swim.

Here's a fun activity you can do at the library to help your child learn the sequencing of numbers and letters.

Kids love to hear about themselves. And reading about themselves is even better! This personal yearbook will let them record all their important facts.

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!