6.10.2007

Flip Books for Toddlers


We have gotten a lot of mileage out of a little photo book I put together a couple of years ago to keep our (then) toddler distracted on an airplane trip. It's easy to make one personalized to your child's interests: Clip photos for words your toddler knows from magazines and tuck them into an inexpensive mini-album with plastic sleeves. It's fun to involve your child in choosing the pictures, too.

Ours has been on many trips, and our second toddler now delights in pointing to the pictures and naming what she sees. Even our three-year-old still enjoys it -- she now tells us stories about the pictures. Somehow they all seem to involve princesses, go figure....