An economical way of printing picture books

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I need an economical way of printing books...

My 5 yr old non verbal daughter can point to pictures on flash cards (real photos not line drawing or cartoons..)

We put those flash cards in picture albums and she can point (field of 4 or 6). BUT, when she sees a photo in a book she cant point to it. I want to make a few picture books of our own which are less busy and then move her to busier books

Anywhere I can customise and print picture books cheapish?

We did this with our DS - we found using a laminator kept the photo cards more durable.

We got the photos printed onto photo paper by e.g. truprint (whoever had offers on), we laminated them and stuck sticky velcro on the back.
We used a board with strips of velcro, but you could use velcro tabs in a book.

I just buy kids scrapbooks and stick photos in with some text I make up.
Or a friend made one based on a story ds liked but changing some bits and making him the main character (and photographing him doing things that were in the story). he loved that and found it really funny.
I am sure I have found apps that you can add photos and make up stories but i never got round to doing any

I have done the lamination.. She now needs to move to 'real books' . Trying to find something where I can stick 6 pictures on a page and see if she can find them.. I suppose I will end up making such pages, printing, laminating and ring binding them... fun

Have you thought about using books aimed at younger children/babies? DK do a range 'my first board book' where there are photos of real objects.

www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=dk+my+first+board+book

Hopefully might save you some hassle!

Boobybum, that is the next stage... We still haven't taught her the first 300 common words... the nouns she has been taught so far are the ones she uses in her daily life.. so it has things like grapes and banana, but doesn't have strawberry... also a lot of her nouns are things you wouldn't teach a baby but due to her age she has to learn them - e.g.. scooter/book bag/ peanut ball, trampoline. Also, some books have verbs, letters, animals, colours, seasons and she isn't ready for them either. and some baby stuff like bottle, potty, high-chair aren't relevant any more or dolly, teddy. Words she should know, but aren't functional for her

Its fun parenting a child with autism and developmental delays...

I have made a 4 page 'book' today.. printed it.. will laminate and see how she does on the busy pages..

If you print the pictures onto sticky address labels it's much less hassle

hi,

how is she with pictures on a screen, say on a tablet or similar?

there are a few apps where you can customise it to display flashcards and make storybooks

• quizlet and bitsboard have flashcards, have used both but found them a bit late for my ds. you can record your voice optionally to each i think
• pictello is AMAZING if your child likes looking at stories with photos of them, e.g. the day we went to the zoo etc, you can add text and photos, and the story reads itself (albeit in a slightly creepy siri voice) - i found it great for input of vocab
• fotofarm is a brilliant app if you need to google image and save a load of pictures, it is v quick and saves direct to your tablet. Prior to that i was googling, then saving and printing out. it automatically selects the simplest and clearest pics.

hope that helps (i am not affiliated with any apps btw)

Blurb will print "proper" picture books and the individual books aren't too badly priced, but their postage charges are high.

Blurb is US based and that makes them expensive:(

Thanks for those apps.. Apps is what I have been after because ipad is sooooo reinforcing

No, there's a European Blurb now (you need blurb.co.uk rather than blurb.com); prices are variable but, for example, the Softcover Pocket 13x20cm book is quite keenly priced. They only ship from the Netherlands so there's no reason for the delivery charges to be so high. A cynic might suggest that they just like to whack on postage charges once you're emotionally committed to your design.