Anyone who participated in Project Run and Play will know my guest for today…the amazing Chelise from CP! Chelise is an incredible seamstress with an impeccable eye for detail, design and creativity. She also has the cutest little girl on earth whom models her designs and is even with us today as well! Here is Chelise:
Hello, Chelise here! I have been getting some great ideas from Kiki’s Fun in the Sun series… ideas that are much appreciated as we strive to survive another day of summer in blazing beautiful Phoenix.
Here’s another idea!
Make your child their very own personal I Spy book. It will provide hours and hours of entertainment. Drew has always been a fan of I Spy books, but this one is most special to her because it includes her toys and the things that are most important to her. In that way it will always be a keepsake!
To make your own:
1. Set up scenes using your child’s toys and play things. Don’t do it on your own! Drew and I had just as much fun putting these scenes together as we have now looking back on them. The possibilities here are endless really. Draw inspiration from Jean Marzollo’s and Walter Wick’s I Spy book pages, see below for some ideas from our book, or let your child’s imagination run wild!
2. Take pictures. Another option is to edit your pictures to add text, if you’d like. I did not add any text in our book because we like to play just by taking turns and spying something ourselves.
3. Make your book. The cheapest way is probably just printing the pictures yourself and assembling them into one of those slide-in photo albums and that would work just great! I wanted to make ours into an actual book. There are countless companies now that print photobooks. I did it cheaply and made mine through Wal-mart, the 5×7 soft cover option for only $8.97.
4. Watch your child “read” it over and over. Drew got this book in her Christmas stocking last year after we created all the scenes over the course of a few months. She then slept with the book for the next few months, she loved it so much. It is time for us to start making a new I Spy book for Christmas 2012, since she already has so many new toys and new interests.
Now, start playing with your kids and their toys to make them their very own I Spy book!
And thanks to the creative and incredibly talented Kiki for having me!
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