Toddler Books: Making Books With Your Child's Drawings

Here are pages we have been collecting to make an animal book by my twins.

The girls have always enjoyed drawing from a very young age. We read a lot of books to them and they enjoyed browsing on their own.

It really helped their drawing skills and we'd often use the very simple picture books to find photos, pictures of animals, or any object they were trying to draw.

Pointing out the shapes we saw in the pictures and the colors helped them to be able to draw independently. We often drew with them to show them how to form shapes but rarely for them.

Self portrait at 2 years 11 months and then 3 years 11 months

Collect your child's pictures in a binder. Date and file. You will be amazed at the developmental growth and so will your child. While teaching Kindergarten I would collect pieces of art throughout the year and put it in a velo bound booklet to take home. The first page was a picture drawn of themselves on the first day of school. The last was a picture about themselves drawn at the end of the school year. For many, their favorite were those two pictures. It was so cute to hear their expressions of amazement of how they drew themselves at the beginning of the year!