Making a book with your child is easy. Together decide on the pages that will make the book, using text as well as art or photos. Then put the pages in order and bind them together.

You can use:

• Photographs of family members - Pictures of enjoyable family activities, favorite places to visit, familiar animals and pets, and family trips.
  
  
• Art work created by your child - Drawings, paintings, or any creation that your child makes to represent their ideas and feelings about the subject of the book.
  
  
• Your child's ideas and feelings expressed on paper or on a tape recorder - Young children need help to print their ideas on paper. With children about five or six years old who want to do their own writing, "inventive spelling" is the way to go. That just means that the words are written as they are heard by your child; correct spelling is not necessary. You can also have your child record their story on a tape recorder. You can then write out the story for them on pages that will make up the book and have them draw the pictures to go along with it.

You can bind your books in a number of different ways:

• Use a stapler
• Punch holes and tie it together with yarn
• Put it in a binder, duo tang or special folder