Making memories that will last is important to me. Kiddies grow up so fast and I constantly feel a great desire to capture as much as I can in something that will last. Photos and video clips are the obvious choice along with perhaps writing a diary of events.
I came across an interesting idea the other day for a family heirloom... a family recipe book. We all have recipes that we love and I suspect most families (and certainly we do) adapt some recipes to meet the family's preferences. I already had a lot of our 'family invented' and 'family adapted' recipes typed up, so this project was fun and simple.
All we needed to buy was a brand new A4 folder.
Here's what we got up to:
Drawing out some designs
Cutting out and colouring in
Quinn coloured in the word 'our'
and was rather proud of it! :O)
Deciding the layout
(they all wrote their own names)
Putting in some printed off recipes
Adding the plastic covering to
keep it all safe & clean
Our finished project and family heirloom.
(Please note that the most important recipe is on the first page! (play dough))
I wanted the boys to design and create as much of this project as possible and I am really pleased with what we ended up with.
Lovely idea!
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