Yearbooks

Hi all! I have been busy since I re-opened in September capturing fun daycare moments through pictures (of course, every child that is included in the pictures has signed permission to be). Anyhow, I am looking into compiling all of these pictures into an awesome year book for June.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about doing so, without it costing a fortune? I have a lot of kids on roster due to b/a, part timers and half dayers, so it can get pricey fast. Hubby suggested CD, but it is just not as cute as flipping through the pages.

That sounds like a great idea, how thoughtful of you. I to think that a book is much more personal than just a cd. Everything these days is compressed into some kind of technology and/or digital program. I love to still print photos and have considered making a photo calendar as a Xmas gift or a photo book. I am pretty sure there are lots of different online companies that you can upload pictures to to make a photobook and then they are mailed out to you.

I will have to look into the photo book options!!! I have never made one before. I am hoping to include little blurbs with their personalized page with favourite food, song, book colour ect.

I've done the picture calendars for Christmas. I use the Printmaster program which is very user friendly for someone like me who isn't very computer savvy! It's just a matter of copying and pasting pics and adding text boxes. I print them at home but if you don't want to use your own printer and ink you could print one copy and then take it somewhere to photocopy. Then it's just a matter of finding a way to bind it.

Awesome idea! The photo books can cost a lot. They do have online sales often for 50% off. But even then I would expect to pay a good $20 per book, for a smaller book with few pages.

I was just looking at making one the other day showing my daughters first year and it was about $45 for 20 (single sided) pages then $1.5 per additional page. The one my sister-in-law made for my nephews first year had 86 pages!!

Let us know what you end up doing. I might try to do this for a Christmas present for the families.

If you want to do a photo book, groupon or team buy have coupons for them fairly often. If you keep an eye out you could probably get a better deal though it would likely still be a bit of money. They have these tiny notebooks at walmart... They are sort of scrap booked, but I remember them being like $10. There's room for 1 pic/page with room to write. They're called smash books.

I personally would use a program and print it yourself with a card stock cover/back. Cheap and you can make it beautiful.

I did small little books for the DCK at xmas time and the parents loved them, they were compact enough for the moms to take them to work and show them off to their co workers. I did them online through Walmart and they were ready in a couple days, very inexpensive and I could custom design each one differently :)

sounds like a great idea!

my only thought is - are you at all concerned about any of the parents being concerned about sharing their child's photo with other parents? I have a consent form that I get parents to sign but I did have one family once who refused to sign it. It was a total pain in the butt to try and take photos and not include one particular child. I am usually very careful when taking photos that I text to parents and usually limit the photo to just a picture of the families own child. I do print pictures and put them in a photo album that I keep here but for the most part I don't share pictures of children with others unless it is of their own child.

I'm the same as mickyc. I will send pictures to the parents of their child and will send home printed pictures of their child but group photos are hung up on my bulletin board for all to see. If your permission form says that group photos will be shared than all is great and this is a fun idea! I used to send group pictures but now with facebook and such, I don't want the parents posting pics of other people's children.

This makes me want to do something similar but just a group photo like a class picture and keep them for my own personal use. If all the parents were okay with it, I would share it with them as well. It would be neat to look back on after years of doing this and remember them when they were little. Thanks for the idea!