I’m glad Mother’s Day crafts are done!
Every Mother’s Day I take these heart shaped photos and get them printed either as 4×4 or 5×5 glossy or matte. This year, I realized that I could just print them on 4×6 and cut them out. Target had prints for .16 if shipped to home, unfortunately the quality of those photos were horrible. I opted for Shutterfly instead, which offered FREE printing through their app – you just need to pay for shipping. I printed 60 photos (for all three third grade classes) and the total came out to a little over 6 dollars. The card idea came from Pinterest, but I can’t locate the original post – my apologies!
If you want to replicate these photos, I recommend a FREE IOS app called Body Symbol. I’m not sure if this app is available to Android. If not, don’t worry! There are tons of other similar apps. I chose this 3 x 4 heart because it comes out as a perfect square. The app also allows you to make your own shapes, but I’ve never ventured into that option.
Things I learned while using this app:
- Pick a nice background! The first year I took pictures in my classroom with students work up as the background, which didn’t look great.
- If the student has siblings at the school, take pictures with them!
- Use props – the bigger the better
- If you have a lot of students to take pictures of, I recommend setting up some butcher paper in the classroom. Otherwise, the lighting outside will always be better.
- Send out the photos to print early and ship to home, there are cheaper options out there if you don’t wait last minute
- Have students dress up nicely for their photos
- Is the upgrade option worth it? I’m not sure, I upgraded – but I’ve used the app so much I felt I owed it to the creator to support the app =D
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