We recently had my family over for dinner and the favorite pastime of the babies that came was to flip through my family album.  I decided I would create one for them for their birthdays and I would share it here.

You will need:

A small photo album, mine is 7 x 6 inches.  

Index Cards, 4 x 6 inches

A red marker

Pictures of your family and friends

In order for babies to learn to read, they need to see the word isolated from the picture.  You will want to create one page for the word and then a separate page for the picture.  Do not place the word and picture side by side.  You want the word to be completely isolated, so it is the sole focus of that page.  

My album had a space for a picture on the cover and I labeled it "Family".  The first page of the album says "my family".  When you flip the page, it shows a picture of our family.  I then continued in this pattern,creating a page for the name of each member of the family followed by their picture.

If you have the materials handy, including the pictures, it will take you less than 15 minutes to make your baby an album.  Just be sure to write the words as large as you can and as neatly as you can.  That's it.

Happy Reading!