The other weekend I took my kids to the San Francisco Center for the Book on one of their Family Bookmaking Days.
Wow. What a tremendous program. My daughter (5), is fascinated with making books, and this was pretty much heaven for her. She made 2 books in about 90 minutes. We probably would have done more if it wasn't (a) crowded as all get out and (b) lunchtime :)
The entire day was sponsored by The San Francisco Foundation and a national grant as well. Of course, my son (4) had a great time too - he was particularly fascinated by the printing presses, the typefaces (they have an entire wall of lead type) and a guillotine (for cutting *paper*). They were using the guillotine and we watched that for at least 10 minutes, talking about how it could easily cut fingers just like it was cutting that 1/2 inch thick stack of paper...
I hope they have another session soon - it was really fun!
