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Homemade Gift Idea #1- make a kid a personalized book

November 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

In the style of Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? you can make a book using just Microsoft Word. 

Using digital family pictures and either clip-art or google images its easy to make a personalized version of the book including the child’s favorite people, pets and toys. 

Sample of two pages might look like:

  1. text at the top of page 1: Jason, Jason, what do you see?
  2. photo of Jason in the middle of page 1
  3. text at the bottom of page 1: I see Uncle Joel looking at me. 
  4. text at top of page 2: Uncle Joel, Uncle Joel, what do you see?
  5. photo of Uncle Joel in the middle of page 3
  6. text at the bottom of page 2: I see a brown monkey looking at me.
  7. The last page of the book is a summary of all the text with smaller pictures.

If this doesn’t make sense, you can preview the book via this link to google books.

I made one for my son two years ago.  Printed on cardstock, laminated, and put in a 3-ring binder, it has held up well.

  • This would also be a good present an older sibling could make to give a younger sibling. 
  • This project could also be made multi-media by putting it into Powerpoint.
  • This is a nice, inexpensive homemade gift that is easy to mail for cousins who don’t live close by.

Tags: christmas · friends and family

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