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Perfectly Precious Picture for Pop

As seen on KDKA's Pittsburgh Today Live

By Kim Inkenhaus of Macaroni Kid Pittsburgh LLC June 12, 2012
I love it when I get things that are hand made by my little one because they are so few and far between.  He is 5 and really doesn't dig crafts yet.  So how do you get him to participate in a making a memory for Dad for Father's Day?

Put that little ham in front of a camera.

Three clicks and you are DONE!

All you need is:

Letters from a craft store (or if you are really last minute just print some out on the computer)

A three picture frame

A cute kid

That's it!

Just give them the letters to hold and snap away.

They do not have to be looking at the camera even.  So if you have itty bitty ones this is perfect.  How cute would this be if one of the letters were being chewed on by a little one?

Upload these to one of those 1 hour photo places and you are done!  Project start to finish took me an hour.  I went to ONE store bought the letters and frame...took 5 minutes to snap the pics...and they were devoped in less than an hour.

TIP:
I have an idea of what to do for next 13 years.  SHH...don't tell my husband.

I am going to use these same letters that I bought oversized and take these pictures every year.  Then when my baby is 18 we will have a ton of them with the same letters and can see how much he has grown.  How is little hands that held the letters have turned into giant hands that wrap around them.

I plan on taking the letters we have been using and put them center in a wall collage.  Then I will surround it with the pictures from over the years.  I'm getting teary just thinking about it!