A New Kind Of Pictionary
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My friend and Brooklyn Dad sent me this hilarious peek at the budding pictionary he is making for his son. This is just one of Leo’s crazy photo works. Another time, maybe we can get him to post another one.
Leo explains what his pictionary is below, and how to do it yourself. Thanks Leo! (By the way, he is most obviously "daddy" in the photo, and, no, his hair doesn’t always look like that, just when he works on it REALLY hard.)
What we really wanted to do is print each picture ourselves, glue onto cardstock, laminate, then bind. This would make it look more like a kids book – with protected pages that little hands could turn…but its just too much work, so we opted for the kodak book. Would be great if there were a printing service that printed books with those thick, protected pages. My original idea was to have the book ordered by the date he learned each word, and to keep expanding it (would bind with a shoelace through punched holes in the laminated pages). But then I realized that kids start to learn 10-20 words/day by 3, so it would be impossible to keep up. It was interesting to spend some time thinking about the words he knows: mostly food and body parts. Plus the odd car, plane, etc. 
I love this idea. I recently discovered that you can create photo albums in iPhoto (for Mac users) and then order them directly. Some of their layouts are interesting and would work well for a pictionary. And it’s very easy to do as well. I swear I’m not an apple rep.