Today, while my sons and I were visiting my mom at her office, a co-worker gave each of the boys a little token gift...a retractable ID Badge holder. You would have thought she handed them a gold nugget judging by how excited they were. My boys love little do-hickeys like that. When they saw that my mom had one too, but her's had an ID Badge on it, they also wanted an ID Badge.
Now, for any one who hasn't met my oldest son, for months he has been telling more and more elaborate stories of his place of work (Down Below), its ever changing location (I think it currently is located in space), and what he does there (play games, create stuff, build stuff for Disneyland, etc). I figured making ID Badges for them would be a fun and imaginative way to keep the stories coming. I was right!
So the first thing I did was open up a file in Microsoft Publisher. I love this program. I make party invitations, cards, and all sorts of picture related stuff with this marvelous program. I created a 3x5 document, inserted a head shot picture of whichever child, added a fake name, a funny title, and a funny company name. I repeated this for the second child, then cut and pasted both to a 8-1/2x11 document.
I printed the document on card stock.
Next, I cut each of the badges out, save the slot at the top.
For laminating, I use clear packing tape. It is cheap and works just as well as the more expensive, heartier laminating sleeves professionals use. After all this is just for play.
Using an X-acto knife, cut out the top slot for hanging the badge. Reinforce the top of the slot with tape across the outer edge.
Last, but not least, I attached the badge to the holder and pinned it to my son's shirt. He was so excited it took me three minutes of picture taking to get one shot that he wasn't jumping up and down in.
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