 Tell
your family's history -
Use a homemade book to tell your family's history from your child
backwards. Include names, pictures, and information that places your
little one in a line of family history.
- Supplement
school lessons with homemade books -
For example, farm animals can follow units on food, pets could add
to a lesson on community, and wild animals can illustrate facts about
different countries. Cut pictures out of magazines or catalogs for
illustrations.
 Keepsake
vacation journal -
Pasting in souvenirs from travels can make a wonderful keepsake vacation
journal. Older children can use their own book as a diary during the
trip.
- Chronicle
a season -
Budding naturalists might like to chronicle a season in a wild area
near your home. Even backyards can yield plenty of nature sketching
opportunities.
- Favorite stories
you've made up
make treasured gifts for your children. They make the book with you,
you write or type the words, and they illustrate them. Expect this
kind of story to become a favourite bedtime request.
- Books that
"take off" where a school lesson ended
can be donated to your child's class for further study.
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