Awesome Summer Activity For Children – Scrapbooking
Now that the children are out of school for the summer, you are wondering what to do to keep them occupied. There are many activities that can keep their attention but scrapbooking is a great hobby to get them interested in. While they are having fun they will also be learning about family and their ancestors, vacation places you have been to and special occasions celebrated by your family.
If your child is younger, you will have to do the cutting of the pictures, cutting the matting for the pictures and small embellishments may need to be eliminated all together. If your children are a little older and know how to work with scissors and cutting tools safely, then let them do the creation of their scrapbooking projects on their own.
Scrapbooking with your children:
* They can learn about their heritage and their ancestors. You can join in with them and tell them all about who the people are in the pictures; your mother and father, grandparents, aunts and uncles and even pictures of when they were small.
* Using different scrapbook layouts that you provide for them to look at, they can use them as a guide or they will learn to be creative and express themselves choosing to make their own page layouts.
* Encourage them to draw around the pictures on the page or add their own embellishments. See what their interpretation of the pictures are and what they feel about the pictures they see.
* Scrapbooking together will give both you and your children memories you can look back on and remember. Take pictures of each other during your scrapbooking sessions with each other for scrapbooking at another time.
* Putting together scrapbook pages of vacations that you have taken as a family will also teach them of family values and togetherness and you can add a subtle history lesson in the process.
* Journaling is an important part of scrapbooking. Let the children compose the journaling box for the scrapbook page. Of course if they are smaller and don’t know how to write yet, write the journaling box for them, but let it be their words you write. If the pictures are of ancestors, you should write a separate journaling box with the information about the people in the picture but also include your child’s words too.
* When the scrapbooking time is over, take advantage of this time to stress the importance of putting away the supplies you have worked with so they can be easily found the next time. Make certain that any sharp tools or cutting instruments are put up high and hidden out of the younger children’s reach. They may think if they were able to be around the tools and use them once, then they can use them on their own any time. Make it clear to them that they are not to attempt to use any of the tools without your supervision.
Enjoy this special time with your children because they do grow up so fast. Think of the wonderful memories you will have created on a summer afternoon just to keep them busy.
From Monna Ellithorpe.
Even if scrapbooking is not a hobby of yours already and you are not sure how to start, I invite you to visit 500 Scrapbook Sketches, Inspire Creativity.
Make a special memory with your children that will last forever.
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Author: Monna Ellithorpe
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