Libby and I found these lists of interview questions to ask your child every year on Pinterest and promptly headed over to Archivers for supplies. She decided to ask them every year on her son’s birthday, and I opted to do them every year on the first day of school. (Wait, my baby is about to start school? No! I don’t believe it!) First, let’s look at the supplies.
You’ll need three roles of this awesome glitter ribbon. Actually, you should probably go ahead and buy 4 or 5 roles just to have on hand, but you only need 3 for this project. 🙂
A pack of gitter thickers (this one had exactly enough 1s, but I would check your pack and make sure you don’t need 2) and a bunch of different colors of Prima Flowers (they’re old so no link, but you can find them on ebay- search for prima milk bottle flowers). I’m going with a rainbow theme so I had pink, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, and purple.
I got some bling to put in the centers of the flowers. You’ll want to get this tool too. It makes it easy to separate the bling and place it in the flowers.
A tape runner, an album and some cardstock and you’re all set. Funny story about the cardstock. I like a specific texture on my cardstock, orange peel. They had all of the colors I wanted except for the purple so I bought it with a smooth texture. As I started working with it though, I realized that it would drive me batty. So today I paid 5 dollars in shipping for a dollar worth of cardstock. Totally worth it.
I came up with 10 questions. It was quite the challenge to come up with questions that would be relevant for both a 3 year old and an 18 year old, but I think I came up with some good ones. Michael helped me to format formatted them like I wanted. I want to ask Kate the same questions on the first and last days of school, so he made 3 columns: one for the question and one for each answer. I also wanted to have her write her name on the first and last days of school. After I printed all of them, I trimmed each page down to 8 inches by 8 inches, though I wish that I had measured the page protectors first. These particular page protectors are a wee bit bigger. Oh well.
Cut 2 pieces of ribbon to 8 inches and put some tape on the back.
Then just stick them down. 🙂 Stick 3 Prima Flowers down in the lower right hand corner. I’m going in rainbow order, and I used the previous color for the flowers (pink flowers on orange cardstock, orange flowers on yellow cardstock, etc.)
Then use the tool to put the bling in the middle of each flower and add the number for the grade. Kate will do 2 years of Montessori preschool, so I did “M1”, “M2”, “K”, “1”, “2”, etc. all the way up to “12”.
Right after I finished this page, I realized that I would have used orange flowers on the yellow instead of green. ::sigh::
And here’s the full page. These will go on the right side and I’ll put an 8×8 picture of Kate on the left. My plan currently is to take a picture in front of our house on the first day of school with her wearing her backpack. We’ll see how long she lets me get away with that. 🙂
Check out this update for photos of the book in use!