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I need to make a baby book, anyone know how to do it?

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My sister is going to have a baby girl in June. I am in charge of the baby shower. She wants it co-ed and plans to invite everyone in the family. There are divorces on both sides and her DH's parents in particular hate each other. I've been told that they cannot even be in the same room. My sister won't budge on splitting the shower up, so I decided that we needed to do a craft or something to get people away from each other.

My idea was to take a picture of everyone at the shower. This picture would go onto a page in a book for the baby. Each person could design their own page and then we would attach the pictures and put it all together later.

So, does anyone have idea on how to put something like this together? I have never done any sort of scrapbooking in my life. I was thinking get some markers, and stamps. Then we'll figure out something for binding the pages together, but what do I do about the pages? They need to be pretty tough if they're for a baby. What do you think?
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They sell scrapbooking albums in smaller sizes which might be a good fit if you're just looking to put a picture on one side of the page and a note on the other. The pages are page-protectors, clear plastic that the papers slide into so they would hold up better for little kids to look at. If you go to a scrapbooking section of a craft store, they sell something call Matt Stacks. They are heavy weight paper cut to jsut the right size to mount a picture on. You could just leave out a stack of those. Have everyone take 2, one they want their picture on and one to write a note on. Have a bunch of paperclips for them to clip the two together with. What about putting out a bunch of baby themed stickers as well?
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If this will actually be for baby/toddler use (which it sounds like it is) I don't think a basic scrapbook will be tough enough. At least, it wasn't for my daughter!

Here are some other ideas you can try:
Hope you have a great party!
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