Dr. Seuss a child’s gift

Your 1-minute-a-week shortcut to
always having awesome gift ideas well in advance.

Hi gift-givers! This newsletter gives you gift ideas so good, that Sam-I-am could easily convince you to read it in a box, with a fox, with a mouse, in a house, here and there, and anywhere.

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Estimated read time: 2 minutes & 23 seconds

The “Dr. Seuss Your Own Book" Gift:

• Personalized, unique, thoughtful, fun!

• Encourages learning

• Gets better with age

BGC Custom Children’s Book Playbook:

1. Write the book the google slides

2. Create & add the images to the slides

3. Review the book

4. Upload the pages into mpix (or similar photo album service) and order them to be printed & delivered

***I’m sure some of you know a better way to create your own book, but this worked for us.

Other methods for creating a custom book:

• Canva - Instructional video for creating a storyboard in canva

• Pen, paper, markers, etc (Amazon has blank hard cover books)

Want a custom book without having to write & illustrate yourself?

• You can personalize a book that’s created from a template of your choosing through a service like hoorayheroes.com (my wife had one of these made for me a few years ago). Here’s a list of 10 platforms that offer a similar service.

• Who are the children on your gift list? ____

  What are they interested in? ____

  What makes them laugh? ____

Forward this email to:

• Creative parents or grandparents

And introduce them to your favorite 1-minute-a-week shortcut to always having awesome gift ideas well in advance. They can read past editions and subscribe here.

Please reply to this email ~ or ~ click the button below if you have stories of awesome gifts that you can share with the community that fall under the below topics:

• Children’s gifts

• Gifts found at thrift or antique shops

• Mother’s Day/Father’s Day gifts (while they’re fresh in your head)

• Any memorable gift you’ve received or given

Thank you! Thank you, Sam-I-am,
Patrick Kucharson
Better Gift Coach

P.S. Who’s in search of an upcoming housewarming gift and could use a gift brainstorming buddy? Reply to this email with some details and I’d be glad to lend some ideas.

As I already mentioned in a previous email, 5 different people reached out to me to let me know they gave the crossword puzzle idea to someone in their lives. Upon learning about this, the subscriber who originally shared this idea, had the following to say:

Amanda - sharing gift stories from subscribers like you is my favorite part of Better Gift Coach. Thank you!

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