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10 Ways to Use a Mini Photo Book
10 WAYS TO USE A MINI PHOTO BOOK
We love using mini photo books to give the gift of memories. While we recommend primarily printing your memories on archival silver halide photographic prints, the ease of designing a paper photo book makes it a wonderful keepsake for your friends and family. The best part? They’re only $10 each when you order 6 or more; they can be different designs, just have to be the same size!
1. Quiet Book for Kids
This 5×5″ size is a small photo book that is compact and doesn’t take up much room, making it easy to tote around in a diaper bag or purse. “Quiet books” are wonderful tools for children 5 years old and under, that provide activities or stories that entertain children, but keep the volume to a minimum.
We love the idea of customizing and filling the pages with basics like numbers and colors, a collection of their favorite animals, or pictures of family and friends so they can better remember those they may not see often. Help your child learn in a fun, personalized way that they won’t get tired of!
2. Autograph Book
Whether you’re heading to the happiest place on earth or sending your kid off to camp, you can put together a small photo book where their friends can sign and leave a message. We love the idea of sprinkling quotes and fun graphics throughout the pages to personalize it to your child. Your child will love to flip through this autograph book and remember the friendships and connections they made.
When choosing between our glue bound softcover photo books and wire bound photo books, we always recommend choosing wire bound books for projects that require writing so the pages can lay flat.
Tip: Space out the notes and leave plenty of space so you can tape in 2×2, 2×3, or 3×4 photographic prints of your child making memories!
3. ANNIVERSARY GIFT
Celebrate a special anniversary with a gift that celebrates your connection, like our mini photo book! Collect your favorite photos, quotes, and memories and arrange them in these pages. If your partner loves music, consider creating a Spotify playlist of your most meaningful songs as a couple and putting a Spotify code on one of the pages.
If you are pretty early on in a relationship and don’t have much to fill these pages, our wire-bound photo books can be created with as few as 20 pages! Have more years under your belt? Our softcover 5×5 mini photo books include 60 pages.
4. A HIGHLIGHT REEL
Mini Photo Books are affordable and easy to order multiple copies of, so they are great gifts for an end-of-season gift for participants of a sports team, pre-school yearbook, or to document a bigger event like an extended family reunion. Keep your camera out, capture your favorite moments, and then create a book that celebrates the highlights of your time together.
If a friend would like a copy of what you create or you are making it as a gift, increase the quantity of your 5×5 mini photo books in your cart. If you want to quickly customize your design for another person, you can go to My Projects, select Copy Project, and then customize the few pages on the duplicated version to suit the recipient.
5. CELEBRATION BOOK
Collect messages from loved ones for a milestone birthday, or event! If you are able to plan enough ahead, collect the messages digitally and type them up in the mini photo book along with a picture of the person.
If you would like event attendees to write the notes themselves, we recommend the wire bound photo books so the pages can lay flat. You can then choose between having pictures of the guest of honor already printed on the pages or taping in photographic prints later. If you want guests’ writing to leave space for prints to be taped in later, we recommend leaving sticky notes on various pages with “please leave blank!”.
Whether it’s 70 letters for Grandma’s 70th birthday or a book of photos and messages for baby’s blessing or baptism, these mini photo books are a perfectly giftable, lightweight momento. This also works well for a “tribute” book, where memories and photos of a deceased loved one are collected, and printed, and then copies are sent to friends and family.
6. SUMMER JOURNAL
Since our pages are easy to write on, they are a great option to use for journaling. Put together a summer journal to help keep track of your summer adventures. Add pages such as “books I’ve read,” “our favorite summer treats,” a list of states to play an extended “license plate game,” “affirmations,” and “daily schedule/chores.” And of course, make sure to regularly revisit your journal so you can tape printed photos into your summer scrapbook and create a keepsake you will treasure for years to come.
7. KIDS MEMORY BOOK
Help your children remember their childhood by printing their pictures! While we always recommend printing the majority of your memory keeping with archival, silver halide photographic prints, we understand it can be hard for young children to interact with these scrapbooks since they are still mastering the art of how to be gentle. However since these mini photo books are as low as $10 ea, they are a little less precious and are more accessible to them at the 5×5 in size.
We love grouping these memories into specific vacations or seasons of their life, like “Disneyland 2023” and “First Grade”, so they can easily choose which memories they want to interact with. If you place their memory books on an accessible shelf, you may be surprised at how often they will grab these mini photo books and want to hear the stories!
8. WEDDING ALBUM FOR PARENTS
So often parents of a bride and groom will want copies of wedding photos, but hard cover wedding albums can be time consuming to design and have a significantly higher price point. We recommend printing your personal wedding album with archival photographic prints, and then printing a mini photo book for your parents. You can easily customize the pages using our design software to include pictures of their family members who came, and also type out notes thanking them for their support.
Would the parents of the couple appreciate a larger size to see the photos a little bigger? Our wire-bound photo books come as large as 8×8, and our softcover photo books as large as 8.5×11 in.
9. Recipe Book
Keep your favorite recipes in one spot (and not lost on your phone) by adding photos and recipes to a mini photo book. Create a series of seasonal recipe books, recipes your kids love, or a book featuring cookies you’ve mastered baking.
10. Write Your Own Storybook
One of our creative team members, Laura, had her little girl write and illustrate her own story. Laura scanned the drawings, sharpened them in a photo editor, and uploaded them to add to a 5×5 softcover photo book. The results were fantastic. You can do it too! Surprise the storyteller in your life by compiling their work and putting them into one of our little books. Order a few copies to keep and also gift.
MAKE IT YOUR BOOK, YOUR WAY.
No matter what you choose to put in your book we’re dedicated to delivering the best quality and the quickest processing to get them into your hands ASAP, right where they belong! Try your hand at making a personalized mini book, they start are as low as $10 for 60 pages!
And, of course, we want to see it! Tag us on social media to share your creativity and how you are using your mini book!