That’s what my daughter yelled out the other day as she cracked open a brand-new sticker book I’d bought for her. “Let’s stick, Mama!” Which actually means “You sit next to me while I move these stickers around a whole bunch!”

Lately, my daughter’s really ramped up her interest in stickers. She’s always loved them, of course, but lately she’s discovered the joys of sticker story books where she can create a scene with stickers—and then re-create and re-create and re-create the scene until her stickers aren’t so sticky anymore.

Although I’m sure she wishes she could have a new sticker book every single day, our budget doesn’t exactly include a sticker column…so I have to get creative.

I save any stickers I come across: stickers we get from the bank, decals from organizations, address labels I receive as “free gifts” in the mail—even the occasional fruit sticker. I keep them in a pile for her, and she raids the stack frequently for her various decorative needs (my husband and I receive the BEST birthday cards.)

Both sets of my children’s grandparents live about two hours away from us, so we’re often in the car for long periods…and that stack of stickers regularly saves the day! Before we leave, I stock my daughter’s “car bag” with a handful of sticker sheets and some sort of book—a used pocket calendar, an old address book, or even a used check register. She spends most of the trip happily placing her “stickers” into her “book” to make her own story. And I think in the end the little sticker book kits I cobble together are way more engaging for her…even if they look a little funny to the rest of us!

Posted by Shannon, a Dot-arilla Blogger

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