Reunion with Scrapbooking Kits

Bonding with kids is important for their emotional quotient. Sharing moments with them like going out, joining activities in school, and simply having great dinner in fancy restaurants with them are just some of the affairs they remember worthwhile as a child growing up with parents. How about indoors? There is one activity parent and child could engage doing at home without thinking of mistakes and errors. That is kit scrapbooking. Fancy ready-made scrapbook kits are sold online. Some of them have additional items like stencils, camera, paints, colors, stickers and many other ready to tweak stuff. It could cost but what matters is the activity it could give to a child. It promotes bonding while spending the time together. Most of these scrapbook kits are to be assembled with instructions. For such an activity, the child is inclined to follow what was instructed, with mommy's help. What is fun is expecting the outcome of the project. You can never lose with scrapbooking kits because they could be kept as a nice remembrance of the shared moment. How would feel as an adult looking at a scrapbook kit you assembled with your mom when you were just 6 years old? You could just imagine the wonder and joy it can remind you of the good old days! If you don't want to spend a single cent in scrapbooking kit, why not make you own set? You can start making the layout of your scrapbook by occasion. If you really have serious passion with scrapbooking, it takes a good mood to list down ideas on how you will start with making workable templates. You can list down important events that happen most of the time in your yearly routines like the following: CHILD'S BIRTHDAY - if you have more than one sibling, you can decide on working a template based on their favorite colors, do sketches on how you will come up with each child's theme and decide to finish the layout later. You can also make a pink theme for girls and blue for boys. ANNIVERSARIES - you can make concept for you and your husband's yearly celebration. You can provide space for memorable pictures, cards, and dried flowers, which you can insert for the scrapbook. No formalities needed as long as the layout is organized and worth to cherish and will look unique in each glance. SEASONS - Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations may be the busiest times of the year. Cards may flood in for everyone in the family. It takes some thinking to realize you may also provide a space even for the stamps used in sending the snail mails. You should also keep dedications with dates. These are good elements to work on with a template for an effective scrapbooking Christmas kit. HALLOWEEN - could be the coolest themes you can have for scrapbooks. Lots of pictures and fun images could go well with a template. Kids are definitely interested in looking at their spooky photos attached to a good scrapbook. You can create a kit by working with scanned images you can use even in the future and for mass production, which you can distribute to involved relatives. Yes, creating scrapbooking kits may be all about distributing the template for beloved relatives who shared important memories with you. You could collect images, reproduce them by scanning, make instructions and compile them in kits. Send them to at least 5 to 10 relatives. Call a reunion and require them to bring and show each other the assembled kits. Isn't that a fun idea?

Teaching kids to preserve memories through scrapbook

Memories are always meant to be preserved because these will remind people of the good experiences they had in their life times. In order to preserve good memories and experiences, more and more parents encourage their children to create their own scrapbooks at such an early age so they can keep their childhood memories intact. Indeed, scrapbooking is one of the most effective and enjoyable ways of keeping memories safe and fun to look at. By collecting and keeping bits and pieces of memories together, anybody can create and tell a story. For children, scrapbooking can be a learning experience because this can teach them the value of resourcefulness, creativity, patience, and perseverance. GETTING STARTED Scrapbooking is one enjoyable activity you can share with your kids. It can also be one of those activities they can share with their playmates and friends. But, before you get excited in starting to teach your kids the beauty of scrapbooking, there are some things you need to consider. The first thing to consider in encouraging your kids to get into scrapbooking is their interest in the craft. If your child is one of those who are into arts and into collecting mementos to create another work of art. Then she or he is the perfect candidate for the activity because she/he already has the drive and the creativity to create another masterpiece. But if your child is not yet interested with crafts and arts, it doesnt mean he/she cannot indulge into scrapbooking. In fact, this is the perfect time to introduce him/her into a new world of exciting and enjoyable activity. Aside from the interest of your child in crafts and arts, another thing you need to consider is the availability of space where your kids can do the activity. Since scrapbooking requires a lot of materials, you will need a space big enough for them to sprawl and to scatter the materials they will use for making the scrapbook. It is advisable that you provide a space where kids can do their scrapbook and a place where they can leave their stuff. Next, you need to consider the amount of materials your child will need. Since you are about to teach him /her basic scrapbooking, you will need the materials which you can find in the four walls of your house. Heres a quick list of the materials and supplies your kid needs: paper or scrapbook paper usually 12x12 in size, pens and colored pencils, photos, scrapbooking die-cuts and cut-outs, scrapbooking tools such as punchers, scissors, trimmers and rulers, stamps - rubber, clear and foam, adhesives and removers, stickers of different designs, color, and sizes, tags, different templates, totes and organizers, transparencies, albums and old scrapbooks, alphabets, books and scrapbooking magazines for scrapbook ideas, old cards, embellishments such as eyelets, brads, nails and tacks, colored and specialty papers, and scrapbook apparels such as scrapbook kits for starters. Here are some cost saving tips for parents who wish to teach their children scrapbooking but dont have the means to buy expensive scrapbooking supplies and materials: 1 Gather old pictures and let your kids scrap the photos you no longer need. 2. Whenever you go to the developing center, ask for the double prints and let your children experiment with the doubles. 3. After completing a specific project, make sure that you put the leftovers and unused scraps in a container so the kids can use it for another scrapbooking session. 4. Go over your old stuff and bring out the supplies you will no longer use. 5. Guide the kids in making scrapbooks so they will not consume supplies, time and effort in doing projects they cannot use.

Ideas for cost-free scrapbooking

Scrapbooking is one the favorite hobbies of America. And what is there not to like? It is addicting. It is involving and it helps you tap into those dormant creative energies. What is more, you get to recreate and preserver special memories on paper while doing something that you really really love. Scrapbooking though can be really costly with all the materials that you have to buy. There is the scrapbook itself or the album, which you can find in craft store. There are also the special papers and decorations like little metallic buttons and ribbons not to mention the tools like scissors and glue. Scrapbooking can really eat away a large chunk off your monthly savings. But this should not be the case. If you really want to, you can turn your scrapbooking activity into a cost-free adventure. All you need to do is to be resourceful and find items around the house that you can reuse as decors and emblems. Below are some tips that can help you get started. Recycle paper. There is actually no need to buy an already prepared scrapbook or album because you can easily create your own. In fact, most of what is being sold in craft stores and department stores are scrapbooks that you can do yourself. If you have the time, you can recycle your own paper from the newspapers and scratch papers that your kids use in school. Recycling your own paper is real easy although there are many steps that you have to follow. It can also be time consuming because in addition to tearing the paper into smaller pieces, you also have to dry them up after the recycling process. But if you are really decided and have a lot of free time in your hands, research on the specific steps in the Internet. Who knows, you might find it real fun. If however, you find recycling your own paper mighty tedious. You can use plain bond paper or use sheets of newspapers or magazines without really recycling it. Use those pages with ads on them for its color and graphics. The details can add some great touches to your scrapbook pages. Look into your old stuff There are a lot in the house that you can use as decorations for your pages. You don't really have to buy decorations just to make your page nice. In fact, sometimes, what you find in your home can add a touch of memory into your page that decorations in craft stores cannot achieve. One example of things around the home that you can use are old buttons that you get from clothes that you dont wear anymore. Buttons are great decorations for the pages. Another possible decors are faux gemstones from costume jewelries that got broken. You can also tear some fabrics in your old clothes and use some parts to add texture to your pages. Broken chains and ribbons in dresses can also be reused as borders and linings. Papered memories If you are the type who keeps absolutely everything for the memories, you can actually fill up a whole scrapbook without having to buy anything. For instance, bus tickets, movies tickets, concert tickets and even parking tickets that remind you of special occasions can be used as decorations for scrapbooks. The same goes with any kind of receipts. Greeting cards are another great source of graphics and decorations.