We made this as Emma's Christmas gift from Ada. I had wanted it to be a more hands on activity for Ada- print pictures, glue to pages, add stickers, drawing, etc, but alas, this became an after bath photo shoot before bed then upload to Shutterfly and a few clicks later we had a book. Again, taking a page from the Just Make It camp, instead of the perfect minds eye project, this became a project that got done.
Here is were I got the idea to do this...
I wish we had added some words that Ada could read as she gets a little older. Something like:
"Ada is holding an orange car" "Papa is wearing black glasses" and so on.
Emma made a gift for Ada that they both play with now. You can see a picture on Flickr of the nesting wooden dolls I got for a couple dollars at Hobby Lobby and simply gave her one color for each doll and let her have at it. I just used the regular finger paint we use for painting and Tony put a healthy amount of soap on the edges to help them open and close more easily.
How wonderful! And only Ada could make this book a drama!!! Those eyes!!!
ReplyDeleteIf you really look you can see the progression of annoyance and not-paying-attention-ness as the photo shoot progressed. I had to force her to stick with it. Worth it in the end.
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