This project is a terrific way to stimulate your child’s creativity. Put together a book, using any of the different book or album designs posted in Kids’ crafts. Make a really fancy cover with plenty of embellishments. Illustrate the cover with drawings or photos.
Ask your child to come up with a title for the story and display the title prominently on the front cover. Each day thereafter, your little boy or girl will add one line until you both agree the story is finished. Encourage your child to be enthusiastic in penning each line, making each one interesting so it will be an inspiration for the next. Help smaller children with writing and spelling if needed.
Stories can be cute, funny, dramatic, serious, or silly. Your child can make more than one at a time if he or she can’t decide on a theme.
Have kids write on the left hand pages and reserve the right hand pages for illustrations. One new illustration should be added each day as well. Your child can draw something, use stencils or stickers, or cut out pictures and paste them to the pages.
If you miss a day, don’t worry. You can either skip that day or double up the next time. It does help to set aside a time for working on the story and make it a part of the daily routine. If every day is too much, consider bi-weekly or weekly additions to the story and illustrations.
Your child will have fun, but you will enjoy seeing how creative your little one can be. When the story is finally complete, you can count on it becoming your child’s favorite bedtime story for a long time to come. He or she may even save it to read to your grandkids some day.