Jun. 15, 2006 - The Animals Book we MADE!!!

I am half way through printing out our "Animals" Book by Laura, Mattie, Abyni & Paris.  It is SOOOOOOO flipping adorable!  It looks better than I even expected!

For those not in the know... the little girls in our little art co-op this year did marbling on paper... then, in a spurt of inspiration, I thought of having them do Eric Carle style pictures of animals.  Once they were doing that, I thought we should have each of them do two animals, then write a sentence or two about their animal... then make a BOOK.  So we now have in progress 14 books with 9 pages each of our very own Eric Carle style book of animals!  The artwork looks so AWESOME printed out (I'll post some sample pages later) and for the writing, we actually had the girls write out their sentences, then I enlarged that a little on the copy machine, traced with markers and Viola' we have kids writing!  Yay!!!

I'm printing it on cardstock, and having them wire bound at Staples.  I am thinking that I'm going to laminate the cover page, and maybe even do hand bound copies for one or two copies.

We have made copies for all the grandparents, and the cousins.  The girls are going to be SO thrilled once its all said and done.  THey should be proud ~ its a GREAT job!