What a GR8 idea - personalised learning cards

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

God my stepmum is a genius sometimes, i have no idea why i had never thought of the following idea but i thought i would share.

DD1 has been 'counting' and i was saying to DSM that i want to get her an ABC chart for her room (she already has a numbers & animal one) and she told me that for my brothers (7 & 9) that she made her own cards and randomly stuck them around their walls.

She tailored them to each child, the youngest LOVES thomas so she made number and alphabet cards based around thomas characters.. ie. T is for THOMAS use pictures of say 2 thomas engines to show the number 2.

Am going back home this weekend for her birthday and she has said we will laminate some and make them for DD2 i can do D is for Dorothy A is for Apple Z is for Zara (put a pic of her sis)...

How cool is the idea, you can use words your child uses or associates with rather than the random ones on the normal ABC calendars, you can get cheap stickers or get pictures from the internet or even use pictures of pets etc J is for JACK (1 of our dogs).

She made them so she had as an example A then a with a pic of an apple with the word APPLE on them. if i laminate them DD can also use a whiteboard marker to trace around the letters later on and wipe it off.

I am so excited as she's learning so quickly and it will make her room look pretty aswell.

Sorry if anyone already knew about this, i just thought it was an awesome idea and would share.

[TeniBear]

That's a fantastic idea! I might do some up for presents for my friend's little one, I have a laminator...

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

They would be a GR8 present idea, especially if you know their favourite words, characters etc.. use LOTS of pretty colors and pictures and they wull be fun to play with aswell as for learning.

[Liviam]

Fabulous idea!!!

[ss_storm]

great idea! They could even help you make them (if old enough) and choose what they want to put on them. Will have to remember it in a couple of years time when DD is at that stage

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

great idea! They could even help you make them (if old enough) and choose what they want to put on them. Will have to remember it in a couple of years time when DD is at that stage

You wouldn't even need to wai until then, you could use pictures of things she likes NOW but make basic ones... do pictures of yourself and make an M for MUM card etc.

I would never have thought of making them for DD1 now but they are so quick at learning, and really it will prob cost less to make some for yourself with numbers, letters & colors than it would to go out and BUY 3 different wall charts... k-mart are selling alphabet wall charts for $12.99 WTF?????