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| The pictures on the ring |
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| The are double side and organized into the families |
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| Emme loves it! She points at everyone and tries to repeat their names. Though Auntie Sarah is Auntie Shoes |
We live in Utah. We live close to Matt's family. However my family lives in Alaska, Washington and Oregon. So the girls don't really know their first cousins, Aunts and Uncles. I decided I want to make something that the girls could use to see their family. So they could put names with faces. So I made this flip book. It was pretty easy. Especially with this program I downloaded off the net. It is called Picassa. It is not as great as photo shop but it works pretty good and it is free. First thing I did was try to find pictures of pictures of grandparents, and the uncles/aunts with their spouses so the girls understand who is married to who. Then each on of their ten cousins by them selves. With the program I cropped, fixed lighting and was even able to write every one's names at the bottom of the picture. Matt's Aunt has a laminating machine so that the girls couldn't ruin the cards. Then I hole punched them and put them on a metal ring since they love being able to flip through things on their own.
Things needed:
Pictures
A program to edit pictures
contact paper or a laminate machine
a metal ring (you find these in a craft store usually by the leather section)
single hole punch
What a cute idea. I wish my family had thought of this when I was growing up. Then I wouldn't have had all those awkward moments at my dad's family reunion when confronted with a long lost cousin and I had no idea who they were.
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