Back when my girl looked like this:
she loved looking at pictures of other babies, princesses, pacis and cartoon characters. Magazines and catalogs were our friends. But they got shredded so easily. So I set out to make her a durable surprise for Christmas that year.
Here’s what I came up with:
I cut out pictures I thought she would like to look at from Christmas toy catalogs and baby pictures from parenting magazines and glued them onto half sheets of colored construction paper. I glued two pieces of construction paper back to back and arranged it in the order I wanted the book to be in. Then I used clear contact paper to cover each page, being careful to leave an allowance of contact paper around the page.
I then stacked them and hole punched the edges. I used ribbon to tie the book together.
Four years and 2 more babies later it’s still a favorite of the smaller kids (and my girl, now 5 years old)! Another one I’d love to make with (or for) my preschooler is an alphabet one or a number/counting one using the same methods. Let me know if you make one, I’d love to see it.
