Saturday, June 9, 2012

I made an activity book!!

I made this activity book for my boyfriend Ryan. Since we are in a long distance relationship. Here is how I made it.
 The is the cover page, customize it any way you want. I also put Page 1... to show to turn to page 1.
 This is page 1.
This page I made a decoder. They're super easy to make you can look it up online if you don't understand it. But make sure when you come up with your message that it is correct, and give them one letter so that they know where to move it to.
The message a put was for him to move to page 7. I also wrote for him not to look on the other pages as he turns to each page.
Now I recommend for you to turn to page seven just so you get the gist of this. But make sure when you make this to mark the corners with the appropriate number.
Now go to page 7.

 This is page 2.
This is a look at page two I just put a small envelope on it and make the page look all cutesy or whatever. I also showed you what the puzzle peice looks like a little more on the picture below. Now that you grab the puzzle piece go back to page 7.

 This is page 3.Ok so now that the morse code is done, this is a fun one and it's also a little personal. Ryan and I love the show The Office and we both have netflix. So in this he has to go on netflix and go to The Office and select the season and then see what number episode 'local ad' is. You can do this with anything even a favorite book you guys have, like maybe a chapter or something.
This tells him to go to page 5. Lets scroll down there.

This is page 4.This is a fun page. I did a math equation. Now obviously if you do the math it equals 11 and that is the page you go to next. You can come up with a more difficult one if you know they are good at math, but in this case I'm barely good at math.


 This is page 5.Alright so on this page this is another personal thing, I was born in October and that is month 10 so I say to turn to that page. Now you could do this too and just change up the numbers or you could come up with something like maybe your favorite number is 10 or you started dating on the 10th of a month.
I'll see you on page 10.

This is page 6.
Yay! we are so close. Ok so this one was interesting. I made 4 questions, with 4 answers that all equaled a certain amount. You can do any questions you want but when they're done they should all equal the next page number. Ex. mine is:
20+15+9+19=63 now take the 63 and add the two number like:
6+3=9 Then go to page 9!!
 This is page 7.
Ok so now you they decoded page one and made it to page 7. What I did on this page was told him to go to page 2 to find the missing piece.
For the missing peice I took a different sheet of paper and cut a random puzzle shaped piece and wrote on the peice of paper and the puzzle at the same time so when you took away the puzzle you could only see a few letters. In the corner there you'll see the puzzle piece from page 2. I also put a piece of double sided tape with a cover on it from my crafting materials so that he could stick it there to read it.
Go to page 2 really quick to see what it looks like.
The secret message with the puzzle piece is to go to page 4. So lets go there next.
This is page 8.This is the final page. On here I put You Did It! But then I also wrote a message that I hid tiny letters on each page that gave another secret message, and if you can see i put a number underneath each line for each page. So you'll have to come up with a message that is 11 letters long not including the cover page. But this one is difficult because the letters are small and hidden all over I did this last and made sure I had each page correct.
This is the end of all the pages!!
 This is page 9.Okay! So almost there. I did something sappy and drew the infinity symbol and wrote under it. This is the symbol for infinity, what number does it look like? Go to that page.
If you turn it on it's size it looks like the number 8 so that's the page you go to. :-D
This is page 10.
Alright now once again this is personal but I graduated in 2008 so it says to choose the year I graduated. I made little piece of paper with covers over them that you can lift up to see a small message. Under '08 it says 'go to the year you graduated'. He graduated in 2006, so under the '06 one it says to turn to that page.
So now we'll go to page 6.
This is page 11.This page was super NEAT! I came up with the idea to use the visual morse code so he had to decode it. You can do this with another language too like french or german. There are tons of generators to translate english into another language or in this case morse code.
This tells him to turn to page 3. I'll see you up there.
So this is the end of the book and it was a blast to make and I'm sure it's a blast to do!! You can make this as personal as you want but I know you can make this for anyone even a friend you haven't seen in a while! Have fun and if you have questions you can always ask!
Thanks!!!

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