Scrapbooking School Days
Scrapbooking school days, whether your own or your children's, will allow you to capture a special time in someone's life. Of course if you hated school, you might think differently!
However, from that first tearful day at kindergarten, to the graduation ceremony, there will be many school events, friends and memories to include in your scrapbooks.
Scrapbooking School Days - your children's
Your first decision, perhaps, is to decide how to organize the pages. Will you create a scrapbook for each child's journey through the education process, or will you drop the pages, in chronological order, into your regular albums?
If you have more than one child will you create a book for each school they attended. My own children were born 8 years apart and it felt like we were connected with the primary school for a VERY long time, as when the first left, the second was just about to start.
You might wish to restrict yourself to scrapbooking school photos taken by the professionals when they visit, both individual portraits and class shots. Of course there are also group photos of sports teams that perhaps aught to be included in your scrapbook.
But you are likely to end up with more natural shots if you take them yourself. Sadly, many schools have banned cameras being used in school nowadays, so do ask for permission first! You might prefer to take the opportunity of getting pictures of your child with their school friends at the weekends or during vacation time. Or let them take their own snaps!
Another photo taking opportunity could be a school trip. If the class is visiting a zoo, for example, you may like to volunteer to go along to help. You should be able to great some great candid shots rather than posed portraits while your child and his or her friends are enjoying their day away from the classroom.
Let them help!
You might like to let the children themselves help with the journaling.
Ask the younger children to talk to you about their best friends or teachers, while you have discreetly set a digital recorder, cell phone or iPad to record, and then you can include their comments on the page along with your own. You may find yourself editing what they have told you, but hold fire! Those little details are priceless and will be guaranteed to make you both chuckle when you look back on the school albums in later years.
Older children can have even more input. They might like to create the pages themselves, perhaps with a little help or guidance. If they are not quite that adventurous, they may enjoy drawing or stamping background papers, or picking out the elements to use.
Scrapbooking school - more than just photos
Today's scanners allow you to include an impression of other, more bulky elements in your layouts. Maybe a school badge, or even an item of school uniform could be incorporated.
If your child's school insists on neck ties then you could scan that and use it as you would a backing paper. With a complimentary colored background behind the tie, it could make a splash across the middle of a layout, or at the very least suggest a colorway to use for the page.
In a similar manner you could scan a piece of your child's handwritten schoolwork (do they still do that nowadays?) and include that on the page. Try to pick something the child is proud of, not a page with red marks from teacher's pen all over it! The odd spelling mistake is nothing to be worried about, it will seem all the more endearing when the child is older and looking back. If the child achieved a gold or silver star for the work, even better!
Remember those name tags that you had to sew into your children's clothes? You could attach one of them to your layout with eyelets, or brads, as an additional embellishment.
How about including a little brown "lunch money" envelope? You could even slip some hidden journalling inside it.
Maybe your child was a prefect or librarian and wore a badge to denote the fact? This could be attached to the page and even used to help hold something else in place.
Scrapbooking school without photos
If your children have left school, or you are thinking about scrapbooking school days of your own, you may not have photographs to use.
You could use pictures taken around the same time or just use creative titles, embellishments, certificates, schoolwork and journaling to create pages without photographs.
A scrapbook is a memory book, and anything that jogs your memory can be included.
Did you scrapbook your school days?
Do you have a great story and scrapbooking pages for your school days? We would love to read and see what you have done. Please share it!
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My daughter, Lindsay graduated in 2001 and my daughter Jennifer graduated in 2004. I combined some pictures for both of them in a scrapbooking layout....
