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Toddler Book of Shapes & Colors

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Hello everyone and welcome to my Gofundme page.

I'm Tawanna Cullen, a stay at home, homeschooling mother, mommy blogger and by degree, a Graphic Designer  who is headed on a new book publishing adventure!

I have been a homeschooling mother for the past 13 or so years. Over the years I have created a few books for my children to learn. Sometimes we don't have the things at the tip of our hands or the time to run to the library. In those times I have taken to making my own books, flash cards, worksheets, games etc. As a mother of five children, I have a passion to see them learn and excel in the areas they were meant to excel in. In early childhood it is very important to teach them in an environment from which is comfortable to learn. My desire was and still is to provide this for my children, but my budget did not allow me to buy any and everything I wanted, so I started creating games and fun things for them to learn with. The early years are the very foundation of their learning years. They will establish habits and thoughts that will affect them for the rest of their lives. During this time I saw my children excited to learn and I wanted to keep that excitement. Little children are such a delight to teach! They are fun and excited about learning.

One of the books I created was a book I called Shapes and Colors to help my little ones to learn to recognize their colors and shapes as well as practice matching skills in a simple yet interactive format. You can see it in action in the video above. I wanted a book that was simple and to the point. We had a few books on colors, shapes, numbers etc. that would help children a little older, but I wanted a bright simple book for my little ones. I made it easy for me to teach by simply putting different shapes in vibrate basic colors, one on each page. I could point to the shape and they would learn the color as well as the shape. It was simple so that nothing else on the page to distract them or it would be too busy. As a parent I knew that kids like to touch things, and with babies those things usually go straight into the mouth! My board books would get wet and mushy at times. So I created matching felt shapes for them to touch and explore. Some children are visual, some learn by auditory, and some are kinesthetic learners. This book covers all three areas. Visually, children see big vibrantly colored shapes, their auditory senses hear the sound of the words we are telling them as we point and show them the shape and color, the felt shapes provide our kinesthetic learners with a touch and feel aspect. I found that the little ones get the most enjoyment by matching the felt shapes to the correct pages, but you can teach colors and shapes without the felt shapes.

This book covers the basic shapes your child will need to learn before they reach kindergarten! As you can see from the home video, she learned! Our little one was 18 months old in this video. I used this book for teaching basic shapes and matching skills, but I also used this book for fun games. If you have more than one little one learning, play a color and shapes relay game by seeing who can guess the right color and/or shape first.

I was encouraged by other parents to create this book to be available for purchase. I believe all parents love to see their children learn, this book will make it simple for all parents to be their children’s first teachers! This simple book will help allow parents to have opportunities to have a hands on experience teaching their babies and for babies to have hands on resources that they can read over and over again!

I would like to have Shapes and Colors printed in English, Spanish and French. The cost for me to be able to get the book printed would be as follows.

For 250 books printed in English the costs would be $1,300.00 

250 books printed in English ($1,300) and
250 books printed in Spanish ($1,300)
the costs would be $2600.00 for (500 books total)


250 books printed in English ($1,300)
250 books printed in Spanish ($1,300)
250 books printed in French, ($1,300)
the costs would be $3900.00 (for 750 books total)

*I need your help with this project so, all rewards will be sent after we reach our goal of $1,300.00 and the books are printed!*

The felt pieces will be handmade! The Shapes and Colors book will be available for purchase at www.ourseventulips.com I will update the site with a link and ISBN number when we progress to printing. Please check this site for updates on the book.

Would you please join me in helping me self-publish my first book? Thank you so much for helping my vision come to! I appreciate each and every donation of any size! No really I rejoice at every donation. I smile real big until my cheeks hurts (lol), do a happy dance and have to call and tell someone, announce it on facebook, and the website. It's such a heartwarming surprise to see donations appear!! I'm honored that someone has supported me.
Gofundme allows donations as low as $5.00, which is a great amount to make a huge difference to me! It all adds up and makes a huge difference.

Please look at the rewards for donating. I want to give back to those who gave to me. 

If you are not willing to donate, we understand that everyone may not be able to so would you please help me by praying we reach our goal and sharing the link to my page?
Thank you Very much!

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Tawanna Cullen
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Corona, CA

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