Latest Family Fun Project
ScrapBooking
Scrapbooking is an excellent way to spend time with your family and
get the kids away from the video games for awhile!
Scrapbooking - As A Fun Family
Project
by: Karen Cundiff
Working together to create an album of fond memories, is a fantastic
way to spend a rainy afternoon or a cold winter's night. Scrapbooking
can become a favorite family activity.
Whether it be a recent vacation, sporting event, birthday, holiday,
or various other occasions, using your pictures to put a scrapbook album
together is a perfect way to display your photos, while spending quality
time together. The kids love to sort through pictures, old or new, and
help to create a family heirloom. There are many aspects of scrapbooking
that children can easily assist with. For example, they enjoy using the
special design scissors, picking out the photos and decorative paper,
and applying them to the photo pages. The all-time favorite task,
however, seems to be applying the fun stickers to the page. If the
children are old enough, they may also like to journal the pages with
captions or thoughts explaining the pictures or moods
How many boxes of photos do you have stashed away in a closet or a
drawer? You can use this family activity idea to put those pictures to
good use instead of them just being stored away.
The process can sometimes go like this. You enjoy a great week at the
beach, and return home to drop off your film for developing. After 2
days or so, you pick up the developed pictures and reminisce about your
vacation and how much fun everyone had. The pictures are then placed
back in the envelope and stored in a box (to be placed in a photo album
at a later time). Several months or even a year goes by, and the photos
are still in a box in the closet. Sound familiar? Maybe not to everyone,
but many of us do something similar to this. Certainly not
intentionally, but as we all know, our overloaded schedules sometimes
prevent us from doing the things we mean to do.
Another benefit of scrapbooking your photos is the acid-free system.
Using a scrapbook album and paper supplies that are acid-free, protects
your pictures from fading and discoloring. You definitely want to
protect your photo investment and special memories with your loved ones.
If your photos are placed in a scrapbook in a fun and creative way,
you are more likely to store the album on a bookshelf or table. The
scrapbooking album then becomes a great decoration that will be a
wonderful conversation piece. After all, our most treasured times are
with family and friends, and the photos that are taken at these moments,
should be enjoyed.
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