I fabricated my toddler a few babe board books, and I wanted to share how I fabricated them because my son is absolutely obsessed! Anyone tin practise this FYI.

Photo of toddler reading a board book on the couch.

My son is super into reading books and his favorites tend to be board books. Naturally, after a while, I was like, 'Hmm…I wonder if I could make my ain board book for him'.

And it turns out, you totally tin and it's so, and then easy! I worked with Antiquity Uprising to put together three lath books for Hayes and prove yous exactly how I made them so you can brand 'em too.

And now I'm then fond to making these, I don't know if I can terminate. Probably because it kinda fulfills a dream of mine to author  some 'real' books for kids. Until then…these will do only fine!

Okay, so before I get whatever farther into explaining how I made these cute little books, look at the quality! I'll try to stop using exclamation marks. Here's a closeup so yous tin can encounter the printing quality. I mean!

This is one of the reasons I beloved Artifact Uprising so much. The quality is then expert and I love that everything is printed matte as well. I don't really like shiny photo pages, personally.But aside from the awesome printing quality, they're also very sturdy. Meaning, they can have a chirapsia from a toddler and nonetheless manage to be in good looking status. Haha. A requirement for this age especially.

The rounded corners and minor size (easy to hold) are another cheque in the plus column too. Since I wanted each babe board book to be a hybrid of learning and memories that we tin can await at everyday. Something that feels a little sentimental, but isn't a precious book that he tin't play with. Y'all with me?

Photo of colorful board books on the ground with toys surrounding it.

Board Book Theme Ideas

Then, I created three books for him, using Artifact Uprising's Baby Board Book feature. And each lath book is filled with what we've been learning lately and/or what I idea he would like to read over and once again.

Every book is completely personalized – filled with photos I took. And so in ii of the books, I also wrote little phrases for each page that relate dorsum to either a memory from that time or what he loves about it.

For example, one volume is focused on his favorite toys. The plan for this one is for him to bespeak to each of the toys and say them out loud, and so he tin 'read' it with me. He's pretty expert well-nigh knowing the names of all his toys and he gets excited when we says it right.

And when nosotros have time to extend things out, we'll turn it into an exploring affair. Like, we plough to the confront puzzle folio and then nosotros get detect it in the business firm to chronicle the book photo to his real life toy. We don't exercise this every fourth dimension though. Haha. No one has time for that everyday, these days.

The second of the baby board books is all about colors, which is something we've been working on with him for the last month or so. I searched for photos I had taken that included each color then made the reverse page that colour too to reinforce it.

And then, the last book is more than sentimental and is all about the offset abode he lived in, since nosotros have since moved abroad. It goes through some of the things he loved to do in our offset house together and some milestones that he hit at that place, like his first birthday. Every moving picture includes him somewhere in it and he loves that! He says 'baby' every time he sees himself.

How to Make a Personalized Babe Board Book

There are unlike means that you tin can make baby board books like mine. But I used Artifact Uprising specifically because, similar I said before, the quality is And then practiced! Plus, the style fits really well with my aesthetic (and I'm guessing, yours besides)!

Then this tutorial with explain the step by footstep process for how you tin make a lath book on Artifact Uprising. It's easy, I promise.

Photo of computer, opened to a photo editing software.

one. Gather photos or take new ones.

The beginning thing I did to get started with making each board book is go through old photos and effigy out what I already had, photo-wise. And and then I created a quick list of the things I wanted to go pictures of still, with Hayes. For 'the book of colors' and the 'my beginning home volume', I already had all the photos I needed. Just for the toys book, I needed to take new photos.

We turned the photo taking into an action and it concluded upwards beingness actually fun for both of united states. He posed with his favorite toys and I took pictures of the whole thing and would bear witness him the photos in my photographic camera as we went along. His favorite part. The whole thing only took about 30 minutes (and that includes at least 20 minutes of play fourth dimension. haha).

From there, I put everything on my computer, edited the photos, and then downloaded them onto the Antiquity Uprising site. Which brings me to the next step…

Image of computer, opened to Artifact Uprising website.

2. Select baby board volume and choose customizations.

Select baby board volume from the photo books drop down on www.artifactuprising.com. That will take you to the Infant Board Book folio (here) where you can customize your project.

On this folio, you can decide the folio count – twenty, 30, or 40. I went with 20 pages for each.And you can besides decide the theme – people, places, thankful, or custom. I went with the custom pick for each book. Just I love the other prompt options too equally additional lath book ideas.

So click the Make Your Book button and information technology volition accept you lot to the editor to showtime creating your book.

Image of computer, opened to Artifact Uprising editor tool.

3. Beginning editing your book.

This step may sound intimidating. But honestly, it'due south then easy! And AU walks you through the process (if desired), with prompts for each step. Naming your project, customizing colors, etc. I like to change the colors of the spine to a unlike color for each projection, so they look cute all together on a shelf.

When you are logged in, you lot can save your progress someday and come back to it after if you don't end it all at once. This feature is and then helpful!

Image of computer, making a board book with Artifact Uprising.

4. Add together your photos.

Click the add photos button and upload your photos. From there you tin create a new gallery or add together to an existing gallery, which makes photos super easy to find later if you have a lot to look through. This is particularly helpful for bigger projects, similar photo albums, etc. But even just for a smaller project, like a board volume, it's nice to have.

Once your photos are in, you just click on them to add together one to the next blank page (or cover and back cover). And if you want to alter them out or edit them from there (re-crop, etc), but rollover the image on the book and click edit photo. Apply changes to salve the changes yous've made or remove the photo and choose a new one.

You'll also be able to add together your kid'due south proper noun to the inside cover, along with a notation or 'poem' about the book. And so, you can add the remaining pages

Image of computer, creating a board book online.

five. Modify folio layouts, add together text, etc.

As you add photos, you can change the layout, click to add text, and modify the color of the text folio. You lot tin cull from colors that AU has already selected OR use any hex color code yous similar.

Don't know the hex color codes? I didn't either. I but googled 'em…like 'hex color code blue'. A agglomeration volition popular upward from there and you can choose 1 y'all like.

Image of computer, opened to Artifact Uprising shopping cart

6. Add to cart and checkout.

In one case your book is completely finished, press the add together to cart push button and you lot can checkout from there.

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Photo of two small board books for babies, with toys on the cover.

He loves reading these – the pages are piece of cake to plow and nosotros tin bring them in the auto, to grandma'southward firm, etc. And now I'yard wondering if we should brand another set for grandma's house. Hmmm…

Photo of mother and child reading books in a nursery, on the floor.

Photo of toddler reading a small book on the couch, about toys.

Image of toddler reading a board book, sitting on the floor.

They'd brand such a unique gift for a baby or toddler'southward altogether, Christmas, etc. Merely I'll stop talking now and merely say, permit me know if you have any questions. I'm happy to answer.

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