diff --git a/src/main/scala/com/databricks/spark/avro/RddUtils.scala b/src/main/scala/com/databricks/spark/avro/RddUtils.scala
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..12495bc1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/scala/com/databricks/spark/avro/RddUtils.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2014 Databricks
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package com.databricks.spark.avro
+
+import SchemaConverters._
+import scala.util.Try
+import org.apache.avro.generic.GenericRecord
+import org.apache.spark.sql.types._
+import org.apache.spark.sql.{DataFrame, Row, SparkSession}
+import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD
+
+/**
+  * [[RDD]] implicits.
+  */
+object RddUtils {
+  /**
+    * Extensions to [[RDD]]s of [[GenericRecord]]s.
+    *
+    * @param rdd the [[RDD]] to decorate with additional functionality.
+    */
+  implicit class RddToDataFrame(val rdd: RDD[GenericRecord]) {
+    /**
+      * Convert a [[RDD]] of [[GenericRecord]]s to a [[DataFrame]]
+      *
+      * @return the [[DataFrame]]
+      */
+    def toDF(): DataFrame = {
+      val spark = SparkSession
+        .builder
+        .config(rdd.sparkContext.getConf)
+        .getOrCreate()
+
+      val avroSchema = rdd.take(1)(0).getSchema
+      val dataFrameSchema = toSqlType(avroSchema).dataType.asInstanceOf[StructType]
+      val converter = createConverterToSQL(avroSchema, dataFrameSchema)
+
+      val rowRdd = rdd.flatMap { record =>
+        Try(converter(record).asInstanceOf[Row]).toOption
+      }
+
+      spark.createDataFrame(rowRdd, dataFrameSchema)
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/test/scala/com/databricks/spark/avro/AvroSuite.scala b/src/test/scala/com/databricks/spark/avro/AvroSuite.scala
index 1b5d07aa..b3a0c97f 100644
--- a/src/test/scala/com/databricks/spark/avro/AvroSuite.scala
+++ b/src/test/scala/com/databricks/spark/avro/AvroSuite.scala
@@ -30,8 +30,10 @@ import org.apache.avro.Schema.{Field, Type}
 import org.apache.avro.file.DataFileWriter
 import org.apache.avro.generic.GenericData.{EnumSymbol, Fixed}
 import org.apache.avro.generic.{GenericData, GenericDatumWriter, GenericRecord}
+import org.apache.avro.mapred.{AvroInputFormat, AvroWrapper}
 import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils
 
+import org.apache.hadoop.io.NullWritable
 import org.apache.spark.sql.{AnalysisException, Row, SparkSession}
 import org.apache.spark.sql.types._
 import org.scalatest.{BeforeAndAfterAll, FunSuite}
@@ -48,6 +50,7 @@ class AvroSuite extends FunSuite with BeforeAndAfterAll {
       .master("local[2]")
       .appName("AvroSuite")
       .config("spark.sql.files.maxPartitionBytes", 1024)
+      .config("spark.serializer", "org.apache.spark.serializer.KryoSerializer")
       .getOrCreate()
   }
 
@@ -59,6 +62,22 @@ class AvroSuite extends FunSuite with BeforeAndAfterAll {
     }
   }
 
+  test("converting rdd to dataframe") {
+    val rdd = spark.sparkContext.hadoopFile[
+        AvroWrapper[GenericRecord],
+        NullWritable,
+        AvroInputFormat[GenericRecord]
+      ](testFile).map(_._1.datum)
+
+    import RddUtils.RddToDataFrame
+
+    val df1 = rdd.toDF
+    val df2 = spark.read.avro(testFile)
+
+    assert(df1.schema.simpleString === df2.schema.simpleString)
+    assert(df1.orderBy("string").collect === df2.orderBy("string").collect)
+  }
+
   test("reading and writing partitioned data") {
     val df = spark.read.avro(episodesFile)
     val fields = List("title", "air_date", "doctor")