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

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

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.

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

To reach goals and gain accomplishments, you have to have a plan for success. This activity will help your child to create goals for the upcoming school year.

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.

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.

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

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

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

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! 

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

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

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.