Making a story book

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DS has a little gang of friends and they do lots of things together. All turning 3 fairly soon. I was wondering about making/writing a story for them, about them all doing something or other together, illustrated with appropriate photographs.
Sounds sort of like the 'photobooks' you can make on places like photobox, but they're fairly terrifying expensive, and anyway I'm not sure how much text you can have in them.
Has anyone done anything like this, and if so, do you have any tips?
Is it just a total waste of time and 3 year olds will turn their noses up at it? (probably don't care about that one, tbh, I think the parents would like it...)

As soon as I read your post I thought of this. I bought if for a 6 year old for Xmas once www.gltc.co.uk/fcp/product/-/personalised_books/Personal-Book-Making-Kit/2240

oh, that is a lovely idea! though a bit premature for this lot - will definitely need to be photos rather than drawings (they're all still just scribblers).

Anyone else ever done anything like this?

My mum did some little books for my two nephews (DD now reaching a similar age, so hoping for Christmas!). She just put together photos of them, and some pictures of favourite characters off the internet with a little story in Photoshop/Illustrator and stapled it into a little book - very popular with both of them.

So I don't think they're too young, and at that age they're not particularly discerning on quality if you do a bit of a DIY job. How are your Photoshop skills?!

IMO think a photo book would be great, ideally from a service that prints text well, like FotoInsight. Regarding the costs it depends on how big you want to make the book. Print costs for a 6" x 4" equivalent area start from 10 pence (printing at home will be more expensive). "Those photo books costing the least are the most expensive and vice versa ..." - taken from: tr.im/photobooktest