I complete the books about 10 months after a year has ended.
While you’re at it, why not make a separate little story-photo book that’s all about your child’s life.In addition to our yearly family photo albums, I make a photo book for Boo stocked full of memories. Take pictures of the different areas of your child’s daycare or preschool room, and talk about what they do there. Help kids start to talk about past events and tell simple stories in a fun way by including photos of meaningful past experiences, like vacations and trips! Learning lots of verbs is great for toddlers who are starting to speak in sentences! You can also encourage older kids to tell little stories about and describe the different pictures.
Related: 3 Easy Ways To Help Your Child Say Their NameĪdd in photos of your child doing actions like: This is great for helping your younger child learn to say family member’s names! For older kids, keep the conversation going by talking about where important people live, things they like to do with certain family members or even places you like to go together! Older kids can talk about where they live, what they like to do
Include photos of all of the lovely people in your child’s life, like their family, friends, and caregivers. Here are a few ideas for photo book THEMES: Preschoolers and early elementary-age children also benefit from using photo books to support language development! At this age, photo books can help children to develop early literacy skills, practice expressive language by sharing information and describing things, increase vocabulary, and work on memory- among so many other important, foundational language skills. Photo books create excellent opportunities to help children develop new vocabulary and help them make the jump from one to two words.” Photo books are fantastic for language and communication skill development because simply put, kids can talk more easily about things they can see!Īccording to ASHA Wire, a subset of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, “most toddlers love to start looking at pictures of themselves around 12-24 months, right when they are starting to rapidly increase their vocabulary and move from one-word phrases to two-word phrases. How Photo Books Encourage Language Development Photo books can also help with relationships and information sharing! They can help your child share things with new caregivers or relatives they don’t see very often.įor you, as a parent, a photo book can also be a lifesaver when you’re on-the-go in the stroller and car seat! Think of it as one of the most engaging little books your little one will ever look at. If your child is young and not talking yet, a photo book can help them to participate and feel really included in conversations. Especially once you start playing with creating different stories and themes, the possibilities are really endless. This photo book isn’t a keepsake, it’s more like a toy- an item for them to explore. We mean, the way they see it, they have a whole book specifically about them! No wonder they love it!ģ. Kids love this activity just as much as we do as parents! It’s so engaging for them.
The first reason why we love this activity so much is that it’s great for all ages- including babies! No matter how old your child is, there are tons of benefits to making them their own little photo book!