How to Make a Baby Photo Album

Something all babies and kids love to look at is photo albums. As they grow, kids especially love to look at pictures of themselves as babies and toddlers. Making a baby photo album is a great thing to do. It gives your child her own special mini-photo album of their life that is toteable and that they can carry and look through repeatedly. It's also ideal if you have old duplicates of pictures that you don't want to throw away. You'll find that as your child gets older, you both will enjoy looking at the baby pictures and wondering where all that time went.

Instructions

1. Visit your thrift store and buy a small, empty photo album book. You can also buy one at a photo store. The little books are 4 x 6, and can hold 25, 50 or 100 photos, depending on how big a book you want to make.

2. Start the book with pictures from your pregnancy, pictures of the hospital, pictures of siblings, pictures of the newborn baby. Your child will love to see your big stomach, the family at the birth and the home you came home to after the hospital.

3. Try to have the book progress in age from infant to toddler to preschooler and beyond. You can add in as many photos as you like, especially if you have old stacks of photo copies that you didn't know what to do with. Stick any extra pictures in the baby album! Your child will like every single one.

4. Let your child keep the album in her room.

5. Look through the album at night instead of a story sometimes, and tell the story of the wonderful day you gave birth to them. Talk about each other the pictures, telling them about what they were like at each stage, where they were in each picture, what the day was like if you remember. They'll treasure the album, and the stories will become legend.

Tips & Warnings

• If you run out of room, continue the baby album into another photo book! You can keep going right up until college!