DIY Name flip book

Penny, my 4 year old, loves writing but hasn't figured out "sounding out words" for spelling yet so she constantly asks "how do you spell..."
So I made her a name book with photos of her favorite people.

Plan #1 was to make photos on my phone with names under using a photo collage/edit option and print the pictures at Walgreens and either punch for rings or slip into a small photo album.

Then I saw these "picture plates" at Lakeshore Learning Store and decided to use my new Sprocket.

I prefer Home-made, hand written, and diy style educational supplies vs everything being ready made, computerized etc so this plan appealed to me, plus I can can easily add to it without going back to Walgreen's.

Supplies:

  • Photo/name plates
Or you could just use notecards. 

  • A way to bind them,

Since I have a arc style punch, I opted to use some Happy Planner Discs that I had leftover from old planners. 
But you can use something like this
Or these 
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  • Photos

For the Photos, I used my Sprocket portable personal pocket photo printer  
HP Sprocket Portable Photo Printer, X7N07A, Print Social Media Photos on 2x3 Sticky-Backed Paper - White
which uses zero ink peel and stick paper  (currently on sale on Amazon at $5/pack prices subject to change). I printed 2 photos per sticker for most of the words (Friends, Christmas Tree, and Santa Claus were all full stickers).
You could print your own, draw pictures of common words, or even use magazine clippings. 

Penny was SO excited and immediately wrote some of her favorite people's names, currently Santa Claus and Grandpa. 





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