We have all heard the saying "Families that pray together stay together". Well, what about "Families that eat together stay together", or better yet "FAMILIES THAT SCRAPBOOK TOGETHER STAY TOGETHER"? In our busy lifestyles it's always hard to bring all the family members together for any activity, but scrapbooking can not only bring the immediate family members together, but also the other members that you don't see as often. I would like to give you some helpful tips to hopefully make this work for you in your family.
1. Do you have a sports nut in your family? We had a soccer and tennis athlete who was crazy about both and of course we have tons of pictures of games and tournaments. The best way to approach all those pictures is to sit down and consult with your athlete and let him or her choose the pictures he or she would like in the album. Next check your scrapbooking stash and go shopping together for paper and embellishments. Let them make the most of those choices with your expert advice of course. The best part is sitting down and putting the page layouts together. Journaling would be wonderful in their own handwriting. Now he or she has an album that will be an heirloom for the rest of their lives, bringing fond memories of their athletic days and their close friends.
2. Pick a specific family night once a week to scrapbook together. This could include a sport, a trip you have taken together, maybe someone is into music, or you can do a heritage album with a lot of those old family pictures and introduce your children to a part of their family they have never seen or heard much about. Using older family pictures of grandmas or grandpas, great grandparents and aunts and uncles can introduce your children to a whole different family history. Genealogy at work. Choose the favorite pictures and do a page layout together or each person can take three or four pictures and do their own page and share with each other when they are completed. When you have more than one person working on a page layout a scrapbook can be competed in half the time so it is a great way to get your albums done. While you are working together you can also write five things you appreciate in each family member or five strengths you admire in each one. Staying focused on the positive of each person draws you closer together.
3. If you have younger children a great way to include them while you are scrapping is to have their own little table and chair close to you with photos that you have decided not to use, scraps of paper that you have generated, a little adhesive, and a pair of safe scissors. Then let them use their creative juices and imagination to create their own pages. They will love being close to you and doing what you are doing.
4. If you have a school-age child you can take a picture of your child everyday before school, or once a week or once a month and make a wonderful album together of each school year. In the summer you can take a picture once a week or month and put together a summer album. This approach can also be used to graphically capture the full year for each child and organize it into a keepsake album that gets passed on to the children.
5. Do any of you have any older relatives alive? If you do I whole-heartedly encourage you to sit down with them and go through those old pictures and get as much family history as you can. You can record it and maybe encourage them to scrap with you those wonderful pictures with those fabulous stories. I once sat down with my husband's grandmother, just her and I, and we went through some old pictures from Italy, and she shared some wonderful stories about the family. That was many years ago and how I wish I knew then what I know about scrapbooking today. What we could have done together!! Please, please consider your older relatives as a wealth of family information. Gather it and share it with your family!
So you can see that scrapbooking can be a wonderful way to bring the family together. Find your niche and your children's niche so everyone will be eager to scrapbook together. I also scrapbook with a group of women once a month and we are always helping one another when we are stuck with an idea or an embellishment. We even give away our some of our stash if they need it on their page. When we are out shopping for supplies if we see something that we think the other person might need we buy it for them. Scrapbooking is such a wonderful way to bring people and families together. I hope this encourages you to scrapbook as a family and enjoy every minute of it. Happy Scrapbooking!!!
And now I would like to invite you to claim your Free Access to my mini ecourse on 7 Creative Photo Arrangements when you visit http://www.myscrappygals.com. You can use these photo arrangement tips to add variety and interest to your scrapbooking.
1. Do you have a sports nut in your family? We had a soccer and tennis athlete who was crazy about both and of course we have tons of pictures of games and tournaments. The best way to approach all those pictures is to sit down and consult with your athlete and let him or her choose the pictures he or she would like in the album. Next check your scrapbooking stash and go shopping together for paper and embellishments. Let them make the most of those choices with your expert advice of course. The best part is sitting down and putting the page layouts together. Journaling would be wonderful in their own handwriting. Now he or she has an album that will be an heirloom for the rest of their lives, bringing fond memories of their athletic days and their close friends.
2. Pick a specific family night once a week to scrapbook together. This could include a sport, a trip you have taken together, maybe someone is into music, or you can do a heritage album with a lot of those old family pictures and introduce your children to a part of their family they have never seen or heard much about. Using older family pictures of grandmas or grandpas, great grandparents and aunts and uncles can introduce your children to a whole different family history. Genealogy at work. Choose the favorite pictures and do a page layout together or each person can take three or four pictures and do their own page and share with each other when they are completed. When you have more than one person working on a page layout a scrapbook can be competed in half the time so it is a great way to get your albums done. While you are working together you can also write five things you appreciate in each family member or five strengths you admire in each one. Staying focused on the positive of each person draws you closer together.
3. If you have younger children a great way to include them while you are scrapping is to have their own little table and chair close to you with photos that you have decided not to use, scraps of paper that you have generated, a little adhesive, and a pair of safe scissors. Then let them use their creative juices and imagination to create their own pages. They will love being close to you and doing what you are doing.
4. If you have a school-age child you can take a picture of your child everyday before school, or once a week or once a month and make a wonderful album together of each school year. In the summer you can take a picture once a week or month and put together a summer album. This approach can also be used to graphically capture the full year for each child and organize it into a keepsake album that gets passed on to the children.
5. Do any of you have any older relatives alive? If you do I whole-heartedly encourage you to sit down with them and go through those old pictures and get as much family history as you can. You can record it and maybe encourage them to scrap with you those wonderful pictures with those fabulous stories. I once sat down with my husband's grandmother, just her and I, and we went through some old pictures from Italy, and she shared some wonderful stories about the family. That was many years ago and how I wish I knew then what I know about scrapbooking today. What we could have done together!! Please, please consider your older relatives as a wealth of family information. Gather it and share it with your family!
So you can see that scrapbooking can be a wonderful way to bring the family together. Find your niche and your children's niche so everyone will be eager to scrapbook together. I also scrapbook with a group of women once a month and we are always helping one another when we are stuck with an idea or an embellishment. We even give away our some of our stash if they need it on their page. When we are out shopping for supplies if we see something that we think the other person might need we buy it for them. Scrapbooking is such a wonderful way to bring people and families together. I hope this encourages you to scrapbook as a family and enjoy every minute of it. Happy Scrapbooking!!!
And now I would like to invite you to claim your Free Access to my mini ecourse on 7 Creative Photo Arrangements when you visit http://www.myscrappygals.com. You can use these photo arrangement tips to add variety and interest to your scrapbooking.
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