Make Your Kids into Interchangeable Blocks

 I recently came up with an idea that made me really excited to create. You can make your kids into interchangeable blocks by following this fun tutorial. This would be a great gift for grandparents. Another idea is to have far away relatives send you their pictures, and you can make blocks for your kids of their cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents to build familiarity. These blocks create hours of play entertainment for you kids. They will love switching around heads and bodies to make everyone look silly.

 

 I normally have one main picture to represent a project, but I couldn’t decide which one represented the project best. I had fun mixing the blocks all around, and I couldn’t decide. So, I just put them all up for your enjoyment. This project has been in the works for a while. I’ve been excited about it. It’s, as far as I know, a Meaningful Mama original. I had the idea to do it when I saw some Land of Nod stacking animal blocks in the girls’ room as I was putting them to bed. Here’s how we created these blocks…

Next was the photo shoot. My kids change outfits all the time, so I thought this would be tons of fun for them. It ended up being, I admit, a tad more of a challenge than I anticipated. I guess they like to dress up when someone isn’t telling them to do it. I said they could pick out one outfit that made them feel pretty, one outfit of their own choosing and one silly outfit. I also said there would be a mommy’s choice. We put an X on the spot they would stand, and we set up the tripod for the camera. My amazing husband then sized these photos to fit the 2 1/2″ block.  Kids don’t come proportioned in perfect thirds, so he had to play with it a bit and their feet are cut off, but that’s OK. My man is super good on the computer, and he said it takes a bit of know how in Photoshop to make it happen. See how he had the cutting lines on there and everything. 

Once your pictures are printed on normal printer paper, cut them out and make sure they are sized for the blocks. I had to do slivers of trimming on the sides.

Finally, it’s time to Mod Podge. Please see my post on tips for using Mod Podge. We did two sides on all three blocks of each body and let those dry completely before doing the other two sides. I put a plain piece of paper on the top and bottoms of the blocks. The kids were so excited to play with these, and I love all the fun combinations you can make out of all the blocks.

I need to give a shout out to my husband who was a major contributor in this project. He’s amazing!

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