Looking for a great activity for the book lover in your home? Need an imaginative gift for a young friend or family member? I have just the thing for you, a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Kids’ Book. Our daughter has been the recipient of a couple handmade and homemade children’s books over the past couple years and the efforts, while varied in their design, layout and approach, have all ended up being a cherished part of her book collection.
Illustory, a pre-fab layout product that allows your child to draw pictures, write out their story and ship it off to the manufacturer for production of the first edition work, is how my then eight year old niece made what would be the first hand-drawn and written book my daughter had ever received. Illustory is a clever and relatively inexpensive product that makes a lovely gift for the young writer and artist. The hard cover output is very good quality (for a $20 product) and you are able to order more than one copy. This was a Christmas gift for my girl last year and she absolutely loved it.
My other niece, also eight years old, then crafted her own very-handmade story as a birthday gift. Using plain white paper which she later laminated and bound together with string through little round holes made with a simple hole punch, her book was short, simple and 100% charming. There were only seven pages but the fact that she made this with her own hands and thought enough about her cousin to spend the time putting this together so carefully, made it a family favorite in my house for months. It only took 30 seconds to read it, but for a stretch, my girl would select this one every night before bed. I know that she, even at two years old, appreciated very much what her older cousin had given her.
There are a many different things your child can write about in their DIY Book. They could chose to illustrate and re-tell a real life event or gathering, like a birthday party or holiday family dinner, or they could craft an A to Z book using relative’s names, pets, family member hometowns, etc as the A to Z words. Whatever they decide to write and draw, know that the recipient is going to cherish the final homemade product for a very long time.
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