DIY book for teacher featuring whole class - anyone know where to start??

[VickyA]

Myself and another mum have had the (probably bonkers) idea of putting together a story book for the class teacher (Y1), as she is so fab and all the kids love her. We initially thought of doing a "Snow White... What happened next" story, showing the teacher as Snow White, who, having married Prince Charming, missed her dwarves so much she came back to school to look after them. with additional pages drawn by kids and with their photos scanned on, and the whole thing printed through Photobox or someone.

Just writing that has made me feel rather anxious, so I'm even more keen to know, does anyone have any other ideas how we could go about this?

I've seen a book for pre-schools here which looks FAR easier, but it's just too babyish for Y1.

Help!

Yikes.

Sounds a lovely idea but very ambitious.

DD in year 1 drew a school related picture and wrote a little something to her teacher.

We put all the classes efforts into a ring binder type of file.

The teacher was thrilled, but maybe she just added it to her collection.

IIRR Katz made her own using the photobooks on something like Snapfish or one of the other sites offering similar.

her DD drew the pictures and she used a free online site to be able to cut out just the parts of the picture she wanted and import them onto backgrounds on her computer, and then saved them as jpegs (pr photo format). She was then able to upload them onto snapfish, add text via the site and then have them printed.

I helped my DD make a book features the faces of her class earlier this year. We did it on powerpoint, using photos of the children from her class and importing ther vut out heads onto clipart, etc. However we ddn't get this properly turned into a book as no time - we printed it out and but it into one of those project/display type folders with clear plastic pockets inside.

Aha Hulababy - that sounds like what we're planning. I'll see if I can find Katz' posts.

Actually I thought I'd cracked it last night - the site I linked to have just launched a primary school version, which looks great and would be MUCH easier, but unfortunately the other mum who shares the blame for this bonkers idea is determined to get the kids artwork on show, as well as "just" their heads, so I think it's going to be the hard way... I'll see if I can post a link to the Primary school book, if anyone's interested.