Recycled Booklet Fun!

 

I watched some interesting videos many months ago on the internet about different ways to make little booklets. While visiting relatives the kids got interested in a pile of papers that were set out to be used for camp fires. They were all of the extra pages that got printed when printing websites. I remembered learning about how to recycle the pages easily and use them for little books. I thought it'd be a great way to keep them occupied while visiting. So, I picked up some papers and started to fold and cut.

Here are all of the beautiful books that Zoe made. I have to add here about how she told each story over and over in detail and in the process also learned what "Step Mother" and "Step Sister" means. Her story books were on Cinderella/Zoe and while reading to her Grandma about the step mother and the step sisters Grandma (being silly) said, "Step mother? Do you mean she was made from a step?" and Zoe couldn't answer. She just wanted to move on with the story and could tell that it was suppose to be a joke. But after she was finished telling her story again, I asked her if she knew what it meant to have "Step" infront of mother or sister. She didn't so her and I had a great conversation about it. After the conversation her stories changed to express the feelings of poor Cinderella/Zoe who missed her mother so much. It was so sweet!

I don't know if you can tell by the pictures above or not but Zoe used an effect on her name. It's called "beading". Earlier that day I showed her how to bead. She liked it so much that she used it all over her book and finished the above picture that I started for her. I found this effect in a book.

The book is called "Games for Writing by Peggy Kaye".

For those of you who know Austyn or have read our blog, you might remember that he's not interested in printing or doing anything with a pencil at all. Well, it was so cool, because as soon as he saw what Zoe was doing he decided he wanted his own book. I made his long and thin to be different. He loved it and chose to make a rule book for his pretend bank. I wanted to encourage him to do most of it on his own. I had just finished reading the information in "Games for Writing" and knew that by encouraging him to do it without worrying about too many details was so important. So, I reassured him that he could make mistakes and that it wasn't a big deal. I told him not to be worried too much about his letters and to just relax and let it happen. It did! He relaxed and just wanted me to help him with spelling. He used his eraser a couple of times and even switched to the left hand when his right hand got tired. The book turned out wonderful! He came up with most of the rules on his own. I love it!