Scrapbooking for Young Children

Children grow up so fast; scrapbooking for young children is a fabulous way of preserving some of those memories, by combining photos with journaling.

Children have many stories to tell and share and by sharing your scrapbooking experiences you can give them a way to document all the wonderful events of their childhood from their own perspective while creating a new memory of scrapbooking with your child.

Try scrapbooking not only about your children, but also together with your children. Your child's views will add a new perspective to a priceless family treasure.

Don’t forget that scrapbooking for young children is an excellent way to bring you and your children even closer. As you work together to encourage your child to grow their own artistic abilities you will also be encouraging the uniqueness and creativity of your child.

If your child is still very young and hasn't mastered the art of doing a basic layout, you can always do the layout while your child dictates the journaling portion in the scrapbooking process. Consider pointing out a few layouts options and let your child make the selection. The ideas your child has of how the page should look might take you by surprise!

Journaling is important in scrapbooking for young children, even if it's just a few keywords or short sentences. This can be a fun adventure with your child. The creative answers they generate are what will make your pages special.

Supporting your child to express their own choices and thoughts, it's a great way to inspire creativity in your child to want to do more scrapbook pages.

You can choose a topic and then present it to your child. If your child is excited about the topic, then use a series of prompts to get your child's answers to them. Your children’s answers would then go into the journaling boxes of your page. If possible, get your child to write out the answers in his or her own handwriting. This incorporates another piece of your child's uniqueness on the pages.

The basic idea is for you to help your child scrapbook the page, but the words should come from your child. This not only puts your child’s originality into the page, but provides a glimpse into your child's perspective on the event or topic.

Many times, you'll realize that even when the two of you experienced the same event, you saw that event from very different perspectives.

Having your child's stories on the pages will reinforce self-esteem in your child because through this shared activity your child will begin to understand that what he or she has to say means something.

There are some general prompts that you can ask your kids to guide them in telling their stories in the process of scrapbooking for young children:

- What is your favorite....?

- Why do you like about ... the best?

- What do you like to do with it?

- What is so special about...?

- What would you like to do when you...?

- Can you describe.... and what do you know about it?

- What are your likes about...?

- What are your dislikes about...?

- What have you learned from...?

- What have you learned about...?

- What do you admire about...?

- What makes a good...?

- What's the funniest thing that happened on...?

- Where and how did you meet...?

- What do you do when you meet...?

- What do you talk about when you are with...?

- Can you draw a picture on...?

By combining efforts with your child, and with little prompts, creative memories can be achieved on your scrapbook pages.

In this way, you can capture the early growing phases of your child on paper forever.