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Minti - Toddlers and Book Exploration - How to make a zip lock baggie book. find stuff read advicewrite adviceQ & Agroupsphotosactivitymembersmore This site gets better with user participation. Please participate... Some of the main things you can do is rate this advice, add comments to this advice, add links to and from this advice, and/or write your own advice. email print report Related Tags zip-lock reading book baggie toddlelrs ziplock Add a Tag| Show all Tags Like this topic?Write AdviceAdd to FavoritesAdvice that links to this oneADVICE RATING 4.53 (Highly recommended) from 12 votes (584 Visits)Toddlers and Book Exploration - How to make a zip lock baggie book. by TheMentorMom (July 2006) (rank 20th)My son loves books. He likes looking at them, turning the pages, and then tearing them apart. We only let him look at board books but now they are destroyed as well. My question is two-fold: How do you get your child from destroying books? What do you do with the book? Piece it back together or throw it away?That is great that your son loves books! You've asked a great question too about getting young children to be more careful with books. Understand first, that it is natural for you son to be rough with the books. Being able to explore books in this manner is an important part of early literacy, so you want to encourage it. Given this, I understand you don't want his books destroyed. I'm guessing that you read to him frequently. When you do, if you see him being rough with the books, remind him to use gentle or nice touches. With time and experience, he will learn. And there is nothing wrong with taping favorite books together. They love them no matter what the condition!For my kids, we had a "hands on" bin and a "only with mom or dad" bin that was up out of their reach. The "hands on" bin had chunky board books many of which were purchased at garage sales or were freebies from the local library or other programs. We didn't particularly care if these books were damaged, however, we continued to encourage our kids to be careful with them. The "only with mom and dad" bin contained favorite books for bedtime and for quiet reading moments together. Again, we allowed the kids to turn the pages and encouraged them to be gentle or use nice touches.Another idea is to make a zip-lock baggie book. I do this frequently with the little ones I work with. Here's what you'll need:quart sized zip lock baggies (preferably the heavy duty freezer bags without writing on them)heavy cardstock papermagazinesscissorsglue stickstapler masking tapeHere's what you do:Cut a number of pieces of cardstock into squares sized to fit in the zip lock baggies.Cut pictures out of the magazines that you think would interest your child.Paste one picture on each side of the cardstock and insert in a baggie.Make about 4 to 5 pages.Combine the baggies pages together and staple along the side with the zip lock opening.Take the masking tape and form a binding around the end with the staples.Ta da! You have an inexpensive book that cost you pennies if destroyed. Of course, you'll want to keep an eye on your little one with these books especially if they have teeth and like to chew. You don't want them shredding the plastic baggie.Now I like to make books by theme, e.g., animals, transportation, food, household objects, facial features, etc. This is a fantastic way to work on language. If your child is not yet using a lot of words, make a book with pictures of things you want him to be able to say (such as milk, juice, banana, spoon, bed, etc.). As their language increases, you can make a new book with new words. There are a number of computer illustration programs available such as Picture This! that have hundreds of pictures. A variation of this would be to glue pictures on index cards and have them laminated at your nearby office supply store (this is really inexpensive). Then punch a hole in the upper left hand corner and put the pictures on a key ring. You can make "mini books" that are great for diaper changes, car rides or visits to the doctors office.Hope these tips help. Keep on reading and bravo to you for being so invested in helping your little one develop a love of books!Copyright © 2006, Jill S. Urbane. All rights in all media reserved. The content of this article may be forwarded in full without special permission provided it is used for nonprofit purposes and full attribution and copyright notice are given. For other purposes, please contact Jill Urbane at www.thementormom.com. Any contributed content above is the subjective opinion of that member or external author, and not of Minti.com Pty Ltd. If you are searching for health related advice we strongly suggest you seek professional medical support. View our Terms of Service for more details.Related Advice:reading to your childrenFinding Great Kids Books - JustOneMoreBook: Children's Book Podcast (Audio on Demand)Eight tips for encouraging kids to enjoy books and readingCreating Memory Books make Great Gifts!Great Early Literacy Program for Parent with 0-5 Year Olds!Make a Memory! Bookmarks:ADVICE RATING 4.53 (Highly recommended) from 12 votesReport Thankyou for your vote (you can change your vote at any time). Please leave some helpful comments about this advice using the box below. Highly recommend Worth a try May work Not convinced Wouldn't recommendVoting help Add a comment on this article. Vote: | August 2006 | JadieLady cool!I love it! Reply Report Vote: | July 2006 | allyp Thanks, good to knowThat's a great idea. I really like it, and it will help me out later when my daughter start's to take her books and chew's on them, or rips at them!Thanks Reply Report Vote: | July 2006 | mrscrumley Thanks!Thanks for the advice! Currently all the "good" books are up on higher shelves for us to go over with him. And the books he has torn we keep on a lower shelf for him to check out. The ones that are in pieces have been recycled, because really they aren't any good. Reply Report Vote: | July 2006 | Izzy Nice to know.I have let my son play with his books ever since he was old enough to crawl/walk/roll to his bookshelf. At first he used them as teethers, but a month or so later he started to flip the pages and look at the pictures. I used to take the books away when he started chewing on them, but I figure I should encourage his interest. Now it has paid off! Even if I can't always read to him, he walks over to grab a book, sits down and stairs at the picture and "babbles" about it. Reply Report Related keywords: baggie, book, reading, toddlelrs, zip-lock, ziplock Know someone who would like this site? Refer a friend Any contributed content above is the subjective opinion of that member or external author, and not of Minti.com Pty Ltd. If you are searching for health related advice we strongly suggest you seek professional medical support. 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