With Scissors and Glue

Each month we read all the stories from the new Friend magazine
and then drop the magazine into my church bag
to color in and peruse during Sacrament meeting.
I finally got tired of the stack of mags filling my already full bag.
But sometimes I feel guilty about silly things

and one of those silly things was tossing the magazines in the recycling.
So my solution,
(which I'm sure has been done by many before me but I still think it's brilliant)
was to transform them into
books.
The boys and I have been cutting pictures and words out of the magazines
and creating mini-collages on 4X6 index cards.
The pages are a mixture of pictures, quotes, or phrases.

We tried to give each page a different topic.
Kacin was a little stuck on the topic "things that make me happy".

one of Kacin's pages on left, one of Kyler's pages on right

Then we put them into mini-cheapo-photo albums
and voila!

We have two simple, any-age, take anywhere, uplifting books.

I love that we can take out, add, or move around the pages as needed
and the boys are so proud of the pages they made.
I hope they stay this excited about it and the books get used often.