My middle daughter just turned 6 last week. She and I have been having some fun working on a couple of new lenses which is quite a feat when you can't read very well yet! Her latest is Wubbzy Toys.
We start with my lens template and I go down the list of what's there and she decides what to keep and what to delete. I used another of my lenses to show her what the different Amazon modules look like and she decided what she wanted. After I added in the Amazon Spotlight modules for her, we went to Amazon and I told her the letters to spell "Wubbzy" and she hunted out the letters on the keyboard. Scrolling through to find her favorites was easy, then she just had to learn how to highlight the right codes to cut and paste in to the Amazon modules on the lens.
We used a lot of the Big Picture Text modules and she was able to right-click and save the pictures then hunt for them to load on to the lens. We cut-and-pasted the product descriptions from Amazon since that was the easiest for her to do (and 6-year-olds aren't the best with sentence structure anyway).
We used the same links for Cafe Press as we already had on our main Wubbzy fan page (and after seeing the store over there she decided that the magnets were pretty cool too). She picked out all of the Amazon merchandise to feature and her "favorite" is the one she put right on top. So, any revenue this lens makes she's going to use to buy it - Soapity Suds Wubbzy. Apparently the idea of giving Wubbzy a shampoo wig is just too full of win to pass up!!! She also drew a lovely picture of Wubbzy, Widget, Walden, and Daizy to add to the page but my scanner is on the fritz. We tried to take a photo of it, but that didn't work too well.
With her new skills she helped me spiff up Yo Gabba Gabba Toys (and I know the keychain pic looks a bit wonky, but she INSISTED that it looked beautiful that way), and Charlie and Lola Toys (but she got bored after picking out everything so Mommy had to do most of the formatting). I LOVE the little avatar pic she chose for it, though:
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I let my teenage daughter create a lens also. It is called Trina- the teenage squid. That is cool you had your 6 year old build one. I am going to go check it out.
That is very sweet and I have to congratulate you on having patience to work with your daughter like this. I hope you realize how lucky you are to have each other - and being a terrific role-model for many parents... :)
Very cool that you kids work so well with you and you come up with such fun lenses together. Bravo!
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