How to Make You Own Search and Find Book

This past fall our family embarked on a project to make Search and Find books for Christmas presents.
These were a big hit and make great coffee table books.
Here is how we did it.

Over a few months, whenever we went anywhere – for a walk, playing in the yard, at the beach, on an adventure, we would stop and take a few pictures.

The kids would hide somewhere in the scenery – sometimes obviously, or sometimes trying to camouflage – and I would take a picture.

We never dressed for the scenery (not trying to camouflage) as we didn’t think that far ahead! However, you easily could if you plan out your photo adventure!

After a few months of doing this, we had over 40 pictures that I had filed in a folder on my desktop. We then sorted through the pictures and divided them into “easy”, “medium” and “hard” finds.

I then researched a few online photo book options. There are often Groupons for these or website specials. I ended up using PhotoBox.

All of the programs are intuitive, easy to use and have great templates.
I looked at the cost of the book, the number of pages in the book, and the shipping.

Because we had so many pictures, I created 2 books. It would have been a lot more expensive to “add pages” to the template than it was to make 2 books.

I sorted the pictures so there were easy-hard pictures in both volumes. I added fun captions at the bottom and told the reader who to look for in the picture.