How to Make a Preschool Scrapbook

Preschoolers participate in a lot of hands-on projects during their schooling. It's hard to throw away anything that they've made, but it is also hard to keep all of those things lying around. Create a scrapbook that keeps the memories intact, but in a smaller space than the actual projects take up. Here's how.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Scrapbook album
• Scrapbook pages
• Stickers/designs for the scrapbook
• Camera
• Scissors
• Special glue for scrapbook paper

1. First design a cover page for your child's preschool scrapbook. Be sure to include your child's name, the dates that the scrapbook relates to, and then some fun design that reminds you of your child's personality at this time in her life.

2. Each time your child brings home a project from preschool, keep a snippet of it. Once you do this, you can safely dispose of the project, knowing that you have kept it as a memory.

3. If the project is a tangible thing like a sculpture made from clay or Play-Doh, or some other bulky art piece, simply take a picture of the project. Develop the picture and place that picture in the scrapbook. This could also go for science projects like growing grass in a paper cup, or anything of that sort.

4. If the project is on paper, like a drawing or something your child wrote by herself, you can either take a picture of that as well and place the picture in the scrapbook, or you can cut a snippet of the paper, write a caption for it, and place the actual paper in the scrapbook.

5. Be sure to take pictures at your child's preschool. You will want pictures of him with his friends and his teacher. Write captions so you will always remember the names of the people in the pictures. Chances are your child will not remember much about his preschool years as he gets older, so having the names and dates under the pictures is very important.

Resources

• Creative Scrapbook Memories
• Kids Scrapbooking Ideas

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on 11/7/2009 Great article