Autograph book

[Alysa]

I posted this in our trip report a few months ago but i have received quite a few emails about it lately so I thought I would just repost...

How to make an autograph book - only true Disney nuts need read!

What you will need:
1. A mini photo album (Disney themed is good) with sheets for holding photos
2. A sheaf of white card stock paper
3. A metal ruler, cutting board and exacto knife (or scissors but this takes a lot longer)
4. Hole punch
5. A fat marker for signatures (again, Disney themed is good!) and a box of crayons
6. Ribbon to attach pen to book

Steps:
1. Measure the pages in the photo album and use a document maker on your computer to create the pages - mine were 4x5 and I used quark express.
2. Find a list online of all the characters avalable to meet in the park - email me and I can send you one if you like.
3. Search for colouring pages of each of the charcters and place one on each page with their name in small below. Email me if you are unable to find anyone and I can email you these as well. This step may take some time
4. Be sure to leave enough room beside each character for the character to sign their name. Try to fit two autograph pages to a sheet of paper - you should end up with about 100 plus characters so 60 sheets should do. You may want to leave some blank sheets for other characters you forgot - we missed a page for Penguin from Mary Poppins.
5. Cut out sheets and hole punch and place in book - alphabetically is good so you can find each one quickly when you are there. Place a photo page holder between every two pages so you can put pics of your little prince or princess with each character.
6. Attach fat marker with ribbon and Bob's your uncle!
7. Present on way down to Florida to your favourite Disney prince(es) or princess(es) on plane ride with lovely box of new crayons and you may get half an hour of peace from "Are we there yet?" as they colour in their favourite characters.
8. The characters you meet will LOVE this book - it really makes for some wonderful character interaction and terrific signatures. The two mice from cinderella had a little playful quarrel because Suzy took up all of Perla's room. I wanted my girl to have this for her first trip so that she could watch herself grow with the characters - we should have everyone by the time she is ten! This year we got Tigger, Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Timon, Raffiki, Queen of Hearts, Genie, Penguin, Suzy, Perla and Goofy. It was a lot of work but worth every moment and so fun! Caution - this might make some disney addicts drive themselves right into the ground in a tizzy of anticipation!
Have fun!

 

[2dogmom]

Great idea. I have been think about making an autograph book also.

 

[Alysa]

It's so nice to hear back from people right before they leave for their trips when they can't find one last character - have fun!

 

[alloyd1170]

What I did was to get one of the Disney autograph books. Then my 2 yr old (first trip) would get the signatures and I would take his picture with the characters. When we got home, I printed small pictures of him with each character and glued them to the page of that characters signature. When we go back in Jan. I can continue adding to it until the pages fill up and we get all the signatures we want! This also helps to see which characters we already have signatures for and allows us to spend more time looking for ones we need!
alison

 

[DFSquare]

Well, I'm a nut! I read every post I could find on autograph books, as well as posted my own questions.

I started the quest for a list of characters for greeting and the clipart to match. I deleted some characters because I don't think the boys will be interested. Others were deleted because of reports they are only available at charater meals or special events (neither of which we will do).

In the end, I bought spiral-bound, perferated 3x5 index cards (lined on one side, blank on the other). Unfortunately, I read the package wrong and there was only 50 cards in each spiral. I also am having a horrendous time finding photo albums for 3x5s, they are all 4x6 or bigger!

Ok, so after much fussing, I went to Office Max. I found blank 4x6 index cards (300 for less than $4). I had them bind 100 (count them first, one of mine is short 6 cards!) in each spiral at a cost of $1.64 each.

I put all the clipart in a word document, alphabetically for ease of finding in the heat of the moment. I printed all the characters on stickers (used address labels because I have a ton in the house) and then cut off the extra. I stuck one clipart on each card (again keeping in alpha order).

I will take a photo of each child w/the characters and when we get home, make a scrapbook for them. So once we have a signature, we will remove it from the binding and skip them on the next visit.

Kinda long, but hope it helps others.

Dawn