MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS

M. likes to look at photos on the laptop or on my mobile. I thought it would be nice to have a photo album all for herself that she can look at whenever she wants without depending on me.

Also in continuation with teaching fundamental values, I selected some pictures to print for her photo album that capture M. with her family and friends, so to stress the importance of family relations and friendship.

During this week I also want to print some pictures of when she was a baby and make a chronology of her growth so that she can see herself through time. This will help her understand that she is changing and that she used to be a baby too.

ART AND CRAFT

I could have bought an album and put our photos in it, but I preferred create our own so that we could personalize it and M. could help making it too.

TO MAKE THE ALBUM YOU NEED:

As many colour paper sheets as the number of photos you want to put in the album

ruler

pencil

a cutter

cutting board

glue (Pritt)

puncher

a string

stickers, glitter, anything to personalize the album

Fold your paper sheet in half.

Measure your picture and draw its shape with a pencil and a ruler on one half of the paper. Then measure 0.5 cm from each side of the photo shape and draw another smaller shape. Put the sheet on a cutting board and cut this smaller shape out with a cutter.

On the other half of the sheet glue your photo making sure that it fits nicely on the shape you have cut out. Glue the rest of the sheet around your photo and carefully fold the cut out sheet on top.

Then I let M. chose which sticker she wanted to put on each photo and I let her stick it whenever she liked it apart from on the faces.

Then I used a puncher to make two holes where I passed through a string.

later I hang the album where she can easily reach.

M. likes the album very much and she is always looking at it, commenting on what she and other people are doing in the photos. It is especially nice for her to always be able to see family members that she can't see very often.

Later in the evening she wanted to do some sticking with the paper that I cut out to make the album. So I let her glue and stick pieces of paper freely on a sheet and she enjoyed this activity very much.