Little Bird Tales: Scrapbook With A Voice
// 10.22.09 // Filed under: Homeschooling, Link Love
A couple months ago I heard about Little Bird Tales, a service that lets kids create and share personalized books online. Given my love of scrapbooking, I immediately started thinking of the many ways my family could use this service.
Little Bird Tales is easy to use. Have your child draw some pictures (with an online paint program or on paper which you can scan), upload the picture to the site, add text if you want, and record your child’s voice telling the story. The interface is clean and simple. My 5 year old and I created this book in about 15 minutes.
If drawing pictures, creating a story, and recording your child’s voice isn’t enough fun, you can upload photos from a vacation and ask your child to narrate. A scrapbook with a voice! Another thought that crossed my mind is the usefullness of this service for homeschoolers. Your online book needn’t be a preschooler’s story or a photo album. How about asking your older child to actually write and illustrate a book? Thinking ahead to the holidays, Little Bird Tales would be great to use as an electronic greeting card. Upload photos and artwork from 2009 and ask your kids to sing some holiday songs. Enter in email addresses to easily share your story with family and friends.
You can sign up for a free 90-day trial account or subscribe to Little Bird Tales for one year and 100 MB of storage space for $24.95. The good peeps at Little Bird Tales have offered a 20% off coupon code for me to pass on to you. Use code gr8stmom20 when you sign up, which you should do now because the code expires October 31st.
To celebrate the launch of the site, Little Bird Tales is hosting an online contest where kids can submit an ending for their tale “How Little Bird Got His Name” that includes a name suggestion for “Little Bird,” a picture, text and audio. One lucky winner will be selected to win $250 cash, $250 donated to the environmental charity of their choice and a free 3-year membership to the site. Again, the contest ends October 31st, so head on over there today.
Disclosure: I was offered a free one year subscription to try out Little Bird Tales.
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Thanks for the great review! Glad you and Cassie had fun with it…good point about using Little Bird Tales for homeschooling projects as well.
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I always loved scrapbooking as a kid and now that my kids are doing it is so bizarre that it is all computerized. I really like the concept of this program, it seems to capture the charm of scrapbooking that I would have thought would be lost in the digital world.
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Wow It very stunning! I can’t believe that it made by the kids, it seems very professional !
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Lovin’ these SITS Saturdays Sharefest – SOOO much fun 
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Hi,
It is really nice service of kids related to their requirement…
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Happy Saturday Sharefest!
I love your blog, it’s beautiful and cheerful! You’re an artists! WOW! :O
I have a question about homeschooling. Since I haven’t heard of that when I was growing up, these couple of years I’ve been hearing a lot about kids being homeschooled. What is that )dumb question, I know) and how does it work? What do you have to do to get children homeschooled?
Have a wonderful weekend!
I have another question. Now I know this will sound funny, but it is the best way I can explain it, lol! What do you call those inflatable plastic donuts that kids use to float on water?
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I am a scrapper too. This site looks cool. I will have to check it out. I think my kids would enjoy it. Thanks for the review and have a great day!!
As always the SITS Saturday Sharefest is so helpful. Thanks so much for doing this on Saturdays. It was great meeting you in Las Vegas.
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This is such a great idea! I never cease to be amazed at the new things that people come up with, just when you think there couldn’t possibly be anything else. I have some friends that would LOVE this for their kids and my sister is a homeschooler so she would probably like it as well. I’m going to forward this link to them. Happy SITS Saturday Sharefest! Hope you’re having a good day…
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Happy SITS Saturday Sharefest! I wanted to thank you for all your awesome advice each week!
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Good Afternoon just wanted to wish you a Happy SITS Saturday Sharefest! I love this idea. Your blog is so cute! I love the design.
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Stopping over from SITS. These books are such a neat idea!
What a great idea! I’m forwarding the link to my daughter…it would be perfect for my grandchildren. And a very Happy (belated) SITS Saturday Sharefest. I came here from Sunday’s post!
Nice to find this page, very interesting
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i came to your blog from goggle and i found it very interesting.i like it very much and i m going to pass this link to my family members and i hope that they will like it..
Hey, thank you very much for this entry.
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Very cool – I love your blog, gorgeous layout.
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Thanks for this great tip.
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it is really nice Little Bird Tales with have a good article on this post…
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Thanks for sharing this nice info.
apart from normal story, it is very creative story
very nice post … thanks for share with us….
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thanks for the the great story
v nice post i like 2 share all this with my cute baby:)its a v marvelous story
I LOVE the idea of kids reading to grandparents and vice versa. Wouldn’t it be great if parents and grandparents uploaded pictures and created illustrated memoirs to share? Thanks for the link!