Gotta Have It: Picture Books to Make and Print

You love taking pictures of your kid -- and you've got a stack of photo albums to prove it. But what to do with all of those random snaps? Your friends are maxed out with seeing how artfully you framed your kid's left foot.

Well, F is for foot. Create a personalized, drawn-from-your-own-life alphabet book for your kid with PROJECTalphabet.com. When you sign up for this site, you can personalize and print photo books for free -- yup, totally gratis.

Here's how it works: Upload the photos you want to use (we love using shots of your babe holding an apple, banana, cat, etc.) and then select from the various templates, creating a cover and then filling in the inside pages with images and text. When your masterpiece is finished, the site will create a PDF file that you can download to your computer to print right away. And voila! You've got a one-of-a-kind book. Kids love seeing themselves in print, making them that much more jazzed to learn.

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