A book on plants!! Take pictures of ones that he will see in the backyard or on family walks. That way he can identify what he is seeing around him frequently.

@fionafiona1146

2 жыл бұрын

And attributes of them, colour, texture, shape ect.

@SevCaswell

2 жыл бұрын

yes yes yes, this would be awesome, because botany is such a facinating subject that just isn't taught to kids at all :(

@morinomajou

2 жыл бұрын

You could even press actual samples of the (non-toxic) plants and affix them to the page in lieu of illustrations, so he has a chance to see what the leaves and petals feel like to touch (obviously you’d need to supervise him while he’s reading it to make sure they stay in the book, haha)!

@fionafiona1146

2 жыл бұрын

@@morinomajou Pressings of plants can also be laminated so if you collect leaves now/throughout the year and laminate those it might make for a cute book.

You can make a texture book with different samples of things to touch. Silk, velvet, sandpaper, marbled cracks, leather, etc. These don’t require words to “read” but still provides informative stimulation

@stephanieann1213

2 жыл бұрын

I love this idea! You could still put the words with each corresponding item so he’s learning what the words look like as he is feeling the textures😍👍

@HOHNancy

2 жыл бұрын

Love this idea too! 😊 Also when I was tiny, I had a little stuffed animal that had buttons, zippers, shoe strings to teach how to fasten clothing by him or her self. 😊

@fionafiona1146

2 жыл бұрын

There are also textured gloves going from soft plush to nobby silicone as a scale

@stephanieann1213

2 жыл бұрын

@@HOHNancy oh my gosh. That just brought back some good memories. My Grandma got me an Ernie stuffed doll(from Sesame Street)that had the snaps, zippers, buttons, etc. when I was little😍. I had completely forgotten about it until you brought that up!! I loved that thing😁🧡

@JactheKnave

2 жыл бұрын

I’m just remembering how much I loved Pat the Bunny when I was little ❤️

I think a cool children's book would be about kitchen stuff, so the little one can know which one is okay to use or not use at appropriate age groups, I remember I had a children's cook book when I was younger and it had section on it about safety, like how to put your pots and pans on the stove correctly so you don't knock them over or how touching a hot plate is bad or the stove is bad cuz of the heat and so on. Or a simple and easy cookbook to get kids involved in the cooking/baking process.

@rachelcookie321

2 жыл бұрын

I think it might be kind of bad if it says what age they can use which stuff because it’s more about maturity than age. If they reach that age and they’re not mature enough then they will probably be upset that the book said they could use it but they’re not allowed to yet.

@fionafiona1146

2 жыл бұрын

Like saying this are "me tasks" and mummy tasks and children grow beyond sorting recycling and shaking packaged ingredients

@katefriend4085

2 жыл бұрын

You know what I wanted when my kids were little? A collection of pics of animal mamas nursing their babies. I don't know if Jesse and Claud nursed or nursed exclusively, but ours is a straight-passing family and I was the only nurser; and I found so many depictions of babies w bottles in kids' books. Both of my boys loved animals, and neither had ever seen a bottle at home, I would have loved a nursing animal book... never thought of making my own! This is so cute!

*Captions are up, thank you for your patience!*

@snaxicakes

2 жыл бұрын

Using the auto ones as we speak! Big thanks

@elspethfougere9683

2 жыл бұрын

(this is such a lovely video.. Just did you know the sound is really hard to hear when you guys are speaking across the table? I don't think the mic can pick up your words sideways 🥴 it's fine when your straight on to the camera 🌸hopefully that's helpful feedback. I love your videos so much)

As someone who studied elementary education (so ages 4-10), having the children cut their own materials 1) saves time for the teacher and 2) it helps children develop their fine motor skills!

I love the book idea! Perhaps one about some of the places you go as a family? You could use pictures of the park, the garden centre, the homes of family and friends you visit, the sea side etc. If you take pictures of the actual places that could be so lovely

the book of family members sounds so cute, but it reminded me of my little cousin. when he was a baby if my nana ever asked him “where’s Alex?” he would point at the photo of me on the mantlepiece instead of the real me say beside him, because that’s what he associated with my name. i wonder if Rupert will notice the connection between the people in the book and the real people.

Well, look at J & C co-authoring a book ! And it's really cute, useful, creative and it came out wonderful. A book made like this can be so personal and so many subjects can be used. Maybe a book on his favorite foods, trees. garden or sign language. I really admire how ya'll work so hard to give Rupert the best and give him tools to lead to a happier life as he grows up. Well done. Oh, Claudia got more interested in THIS craft because it included a machine ! YAY

Our baby got a book with songs and nursery rhymes for his first birthday and yes, he loves pointing at different pages to make fun stuff happen.

I made laminated books for my children when they were small too! I didn’t have a machine though. I had to use an iron!

I can confirm, in sixth form, we still do cut and stick exersises, a couple of months back we made a synapse, fully out of things you'd find in a nursery

@millie7928

2 жыл бұрын

I'm in college and i still have to cut and stick all the time, you can never escape

@catbeara

2 жыл бұрын

Is this a British thing? I haven't had to cut and stick anything since I was 12 😅

My grandmother made calendars with all our extended families birthdays, any holidays we celebrate and noteworthy dates all marked in, each month has a collage of pictures of anyone with a birthday within the month (including pet cameos) and a colour scheme in line with seasonal weather changes. My little sister adored it as a visual aid and we'd use it to help explain so many things from the time she was a baby till she was learning to count days till summer and asking about different countries and time periods. these visual aids can be so packed with potential questions and information just waiting for the child to ask about once they're putting things together, it's so empowering to have those topics ready to be pointed at and pieced together ^-^

That is important WORK, moving pom poms from one basket to another. Rupert is learning many things including, of course, addition and subtraction.

Love how you two bounce off each other! So much joy and jokes and laughter, it's so wholesome!

I like the little dots in his board book to make the pages easier to turn. That would actually be useful for me (infant teacher in a daycare) as I often have to turn pages one-handed because I have my other arm around someone cranky. someone

Just wanted to say thank you for all the good vibes over the past few years. You've really inspired me a lot in my attitudes towards life and I'm really grateful

My two love their emotion cards and routine cards.

@KindCountsDeb3773

2 жыл бұрын

clever idea !

I think another cool book could be photos of you and Claud (and even Rupert) doing differant signs you want him to be learning along with a picture showing what the sign means Also shapes and colour book

It's always a joy to see your beautiful family!

Pictures of landmarks around the world? Or different foods around the world? You have a REALLY good printer! I am oddly fascinated with the quality lol!

@jennifers5560

2 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing about their printer!

Lovely! Making a book for his family is excellent especially these days. We use one and it even helps curb the shyness when FaceTime happens! If you are looking for more ideas I would make one showing opposites (small dog/big dog, cars, up/down), shapes using images from home (using a marker to highlight the shapes like a circle for clock), and All About Rupert (this is his toy boat/teddy/favorite food or activity) but I’d suggest using one or two words for literacy purposes. I would use a font that is simple and uses the letter a as it is written like comic sans. Hope you fully enjoy your laminator!

As a child I used to have a Beatrix Potter book that told the stories and had a corresponding button which played sections of a song with it! I loved it and used to sing along with the music

@rachelcookie321

2 жыл бұрын

I used to have a book like that too. It had the book and then on the right there a pane attached to it with a bunch of buttons for things. I don’t think I liked the buttons though.

@justlola417

2 жыл бұрын

I think I had the same one! I loved it so much, I found it a few years ago and obviously the batteries had been gone for ages so it just made some sad distorted noises, but it still had bite marks on the corners hahahhaha

Rupert is much too young for this but at the store i work at we sell these things called sensory boxes for toddlers and they always looked super neat and thinking about it now probably align pretty well with the whole Montessori method thing

Loved this video, super cute. When I worked in early years (currently at university) we would make each child a photo book of their family just by spending ages printing and cutting out, laminating and then hole punching. So I know how much effort this takes but so so lovely for the child. Reccomend some songs to sing for Rupert: Wind the bobbin up, 5 little ducks went swimming one day, 5 little monkeys swinging through the trees, Alice the Camel, There's a worm at the bottom of the garden, 3 little men in a flying saucer, We're all going to the zoo tomorrow, I had a little turtle.

My mum made me flash cards with all our family members’ names when I was born, it’d be so cute to have a little ‘our family’ book for Rupert!

Id suggest a book with all the family members (local and abroad, here and passed away) individually, so he can learn to recognize their faces, and eventually names and relations.

@stephanieann1213

2 жыл бұрын

That’s just brilliant. I wish I would have thought of things such as these when my kids were little. They’re 31 and 27. I imagine a little too old for me to do it now Hahaha 😝

@vegeta88

2 жыл бұрын

@@stephanieann1213 I got the idea from my sister! But she has the pictures up on his wall, he loves to point at each and say their names, its very cute

@chloecrawford5426

2 жыл бұрын

@@stephanieann1213 You can still do one, especially if you have older relatives still with you. I am 34 and would love a book of stories from my family.

@stephanieann1213

2 жыл бұрын

@@chloecrawford5426 you’re a sweetheart. I think I will ask my daughter today if she would like one. Thank you💖

My grandparents got me a children’s book called “Patrick gets hearing aids” which is about a bunny named Patrick who goes to the audiologist and gets fitted with a pair of hearing aids!!! It was my favorite children’s book along side “Hattie baked a wedding cake”

At my high school, the only time I did cut and stick projects was for presentations with big poster boards (but we had the option usually to design it digitally and print out a poster too). I’m American, though, so maybe it’s a UK thing?💕

@rachelcookie321

2 жыл бұрын

In New Zealand (well at my school in New Zealand) that’s like one of the only times you use glue sticks in high school too.

This was such a delight! I always love watching the two of you laughing together! And you both sing really well! I wish I had known a family like you when I was a youngster! You are such terrific role models!

How about a book on different animals? For texture you could use different fabrics like fake fur and felt. 😁

A few book ideas: - weather! Rain, sun, snow with pictures of your backyard - house parts! Roofs, walls, floors - Vehicles! Trucks, cars, bicycles - clothes! Shirts, pants, dresses, etc. Maybe if you're feeling adventurous make the little clothes out of cloth. - emotions: Cranky, happy, sad, etc. This was lovely! Also I think it might be fun if you started reading him poetry, since he likes songs. I had a book as a wee child, the Golden treasury of poetry, and it was awesome because it sort of grew with you.

Oh I really liked trying to think of books you could do. I love the idea and will definitely make some for the little ones I look after. This is what I came up with: * A book of different types of flowers or trees in your area, or since you're on the coast maybe one of shells? * A book of positional words: vase on the table, dogs beside trees, rupert under his mobile, arms around baby. *The rooms/areas of your house and garden *Textures and physical feelings such as the dog's coat, water, cold/ice, spiky grass, etc. *A book about your process of going out, shoes and coats on, seatbelts on, car ride, getting into the buggy, etc. *The seasons, I remember being very confused about how time passed as a child.

Pretty sure I have that same laminator since it came with those same accessories. Thirty dollars well spent; I use them all so much. Hope Rupert enjoys that cute lil book!

Such a lovely idea. I love that u create memories with him being small. Having his toys and books personalized for him specifically will give him so many keepsakes for his future💙💙💕💕

@stephanieann1213

2 жыл бұрын

And so enjoyable for baby #2 as well! It’s always a treasure when you can see the next one enjoying the same books/toys.

Awwww sweet! Maybe you could do one about things you find in the garden too? ☺️🤗👩‍🌾🏡🌳🌸🌻

Well to the glueing in school, I'm in 10th grade in Germany and we still get those exercises. Especially in biology for whatever reason. And in my school we mostly use tablets, so yeah, we still need to be occupied by those tasks even though we could definitely use the time better.

I'm not sure if he is too young for this, but I had a book of pictures how to dress myself. Like a picture of pulling closed a zipper, and a picture of buttoning a button, tying shoe laces, pulling up pants, pulling on a shirt, pulling on socks. I still remember it to this day. I used to look at it even when I got a book with the actual things to practice. One page was a zipper, another page had buttons, one page had 3 yarns to learn how to braid/plat hair, etc. It made me feel so confident in dressing myself.

Ah so cute. I made my boys laminated books by just cutting pictures from magazines and catalogues. We talked about the items, made songs, pointed to the things they liked or found interesting. Food is a good one for a theme. Also, things about the house and garden, toys and games. They certainly had their favourite pages. I have kept the books. My eldest is now 18! I'm sure you will all have great fun from these simple things!

A book with his favorite toys could be fun!

Always a joy when you post! Thanks for sharing. ❤️

I love baby books

KZread's auto captions have renamed your family "River" and "Claudius" 😂 Very cute book idea. "River" is a lucky boy! 😉 😊

@ZoCrocodile

2 жыл бұрын

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@Peppermintytea

2 жыл бұрын

@@ZoCrocodile 😂

@HOHNancy

2 жыл бұрын

I noticed the "River" one too. 🤣

This is one for in a couple of years - once he's close to creating structures with blocks. In my nursery class I made a book with pictures of different buildings. I included some famous landmarks, some local known buildings and all sorts of different architecture. So they can use it as inspiration for their own building/designs! Also paired with a clipboard with "planning sheets" on so they can draw their plans before the building work commences.

Your book idea and your censored song are both so cute! ☺ You both and your videos are always a joy to watch. You can also make a book for Rupert on Walter and Tilly as a story. ☺❤

I had a photo book of my dad's side of my family when I was little! It was so fun to me as a kid and a great way for me to be familiar with my uncles and aunts and cousins despite living so far away from all of them.

Another time saver that removes the need for the glue or pritt stick, print onto the card stock. If you have card stock or manila folders, many printers will accept the stock in the manual feeder. Just cut it to 8.5 X 11 or A4 and run it through. you can also try the feeder tray too. This has saved my hide SO MANY TIMES as a museum educator who has had to do 500 pendant designs in a week. :D Also, just learned what a pritt stick is and went. DUH! Always wanted to know but was afraid to ask.

What about an activity book that you can update the activities as he gets older? So maybe a picture of your local park or beach, a picture of the zoo, a picture of a mixing bowl for baking, a picture of the swimming pool, etc (I have no clue what babies do, but you get the idea). So it would be things that he couldn't do by himself yet, but might want help to do. You can probably get some good ideas from the communication cards used by kids with learning difficulties. My brother is autistic and struggled with language when he was younger, so we had reams and reams of laminated cards for all sorts of things.

This was such a sweet wholesome video. I never get tired of hearing Rupert's commentary in the background. I nearly died of cuteness overload when he shouted for more food.

I'd like to make Jack and the Beanstalk with my mother in law because she was a professional calligrapher and I'm an artist.

Your family is the most adorable thing I have ever seen and I LOVE seeing you all

A book on routines. Bedtime, Bath time, meals, etc. And someone probably already said it but family outings that are regular. Park, flower center, shopping, etc.

this was so beautiful thank you for being great rolemodels

You can add more pages as you add songs to the family repertoire 😊

As a teaching assistant (of many years) I love laminating things! It's like my form of mindfulness I feel so calm when I do it x

The “censored” Family Song was the best! …Was I the only one trying to fill in the blanks?

@stellamax1734

2 жыл бұрын

I still can't figure out one-syllable words that would fit and would also be appropriate for kids. lol

@jennifers5560

2 жыл бұрын

@@stellamax1734 Ha ha!

@KindCountsDeb3773

2 жыл бұрын

I think the words I thought of for the blanks were much more graphic than the songs ! ha

@jennifers5560

2 жыл бұрын

@@KindCountsDeb3773 I agree! Lol

Book of plants in the garden!

Hi Jessica and Claudia. Great idea making a baby book you could even add to the one you made. Wish I thought of it years ago.

yes, we do cutting and sticking still as well as use a ton of technology. I'm in secondary school

Well now, you moms have really good singing voices! Very nice 😊❤❤❤

How you met and Ruperts story would be cute.

We love the Global Babies books! Also this is a cute idea, love idea of songs and showing familiar faces. Maybe you can make a book of his books.

My Canadian brain immediately thought yellow school bus when you were first singing "The wheels on the bus", because that's the image most commonly used here, so it took me a second to recognize the double decker bus when you showed it lol

I like the corner rounder from we r memory keepers, because it has 3 options for how round you want the corners rounded.

You guys are so cute together. Love your vids. Always laugh seeing how much fun you two have together ☺️☺️🌈🌈

Cutting and pasting are excellent fine motor skills practice. Maybe with the advent of so much digital work, asking secondary school age children to cut and paste maintains those skills that might decline from lack of use.

OMG!!!! Putting those clear little pumps sona kid can turn the pages himself!!!! I am going to do that to some of my books for my special needs kid that have partial developed hands.

Super cute! I love this! My girl is 7 and I wish I had though about this when she was tiny. ❤️

I have a lot of children on the autistic spectrum in my family and friendship group. These books are fantastic for non verbal children ❤️

A book of meal and snack choices could act as a menu of sorts and he could have an active part in choosing what he eats.

That was very well done I may have to do a cute little book for my toddler…also I hope your elbow is ok xx

I did this when my kids were in kindergarten (homeschool) for colors using a template of colored mice that went with the book Mouse Paint. It can help with colors identification, but more importantly at the slightly older age, color mixing as we told the story while we flipped the cards. It was fun, they loved it.

We still spend ages doing cutting and sticking and I'm literally in an exam year! I dropped Geography in year 11 but when I did it the hole thing was cutting sticking and colouring in

As someone currently interning under a K-2 music teacher, I absolutely love this idea! Also if you ever want to find more children's songs, I cannot recommend the youtuber and composer/arranger Dany Rosevear enough. She's been posting for years and has everything super organized if you look at her playlists and video descriptions.

That's an amazing idea! 😍

My mother works with pre-schoolers with special needs which is a HUGE VARIETY! she uses books like that to teach students their school friends, school staff, and family members (including pets) and with everything happening she makes cards for staff masked and unmasked so they recognize staff both ways! She will also make books for EVERY TOPIC! Visuals like these books are so great and they can incorporate words as age appropriate. These books are so wonderful for verbal and nonverbal learners, love the initiative!

This is such a good idea! I’m totally gonna use this.

No suggestions, but I love how you both work so hard to give him activities and choices that he can understand!

Love this idea 💡

I might print and bind my book that was rejected by the publishers because my drawing wasn't good enough , it was my relening prosses

@jennifers5560

2 жыл бұрын

❤

Jessica you look so nice in green! Try to wear green more as it really suits your skin tone

im in year 13 (17-18), and yes, we still do a lot of cutting and sticking

Maybe a book with wild animals, then he recognizes them if you go to a local zoo with him 😊

This is SO COOL I love it y'll are so creative!

An astronomy book could be cute.It could include stars and the planets,ect

Aw so wholesome 💗

And you can just add and change pages, whenever you want, since you used those purple clip thingies and didnt staple the pages together or something like that!

I work in childcare. Definitely go na make a song book for babies!

A food and drink book would be great fun.

Two suggestions. One you maybe able to print onto the card stock. That way you can skip the cuting out and gluing each picture down. The second suggestions is you may want to include the written names (like each family member name or like dog, cat ....). That way he is exposed to how some of these words look prior to him reading.

I finished secondary school five years ago and as far as I remember we did not cut and stick stuff, I only remembered doing it in my chemistry class but bc it was the only class I found it fun

Yay for teaching children about all of their bodies!!! Not just the "socially acceptable" to teach about parts.

Wow is that a real oxalis plant in the background? It's loving life! How lush. 💜

This is the cutest idea! Wish I had thought of this when our kids were that tiny. :)

We didn't do many cut and stick projects in my high school, but I did do some. I'm also in the US

In my early years of secondary school we did have to glue things a lot, but as I got higher up in the school years, gluing stopped being common. Also that book is a great idea! I was thinking you could have used the Rainbow Fish as a picture for the fish if other photos were too realistic.

When he gets older you can get images for the letters of the alphabet and print them out and laminate them. Then print out all the letters in upper and lower case (Aa Bb Cc etc), laminate those. Then print out the word for each picture and laminate them too. Then you can play memory games by matching the three sets of cards

You should make a video of you singing songs to Rupert with Jessie signing. I'm curious to see what songs you song for kids in the UK

I still do a lot of cutting and sticking at school and I am in year 10 but we don't really do like projects with more just trim a shih so it will fit and I'll book and then stick it down

my sister used to have a book with some of her own toys too, so she could pick without being overwhelmed by a whole chest full of toys. And also just to read and tell us how to play with those toys

making learning multi sensory increases the likelihood that it'll get stored in your long term memory! so at early ages it's great for letters and numbers as well as exercising fine motor skills and then at older grades, well, you seem to remember those high school geography projects better than some other assignments you had in school right?