Get Your Child Involved in Scrapbooking!

Many scrapbooking parents are interested in ways to involve their children in scrapbooking.

Due to their unlimited supply of creativity, children are natural scrap bookers.

Developing special and placement skills is also a key part of their development that can be encouraged by scrapbooking.

While older children are usually more interested in helping to do things such as journaling and working with photographs, younger children tend to enjoy the accessories and embellishment stages of creating a scrapbook layout.

You can design layouts based around activities that you do with your children such as coloring, puzzle making, and crafting.

Any type of small artwork or craft that would fit nicely into a scrapbook page is a wonderful addition to your scrapbook.

Here are a few tips to consider when working with your little ones on a scrapbooking project:

-Be sure that you check your supply box and remove all of the items that are not safe for them to use.

Many common scrapbooking supplies can be potentially harmful to children including items such as small embellishments (choking hazard), sharp tools or instruments, and chemically based toxic adhesives.

Remove all items such as these and place them somewhere that they do not have access to.

-Do not try to interfere with the child’s creation process in order to help make it neater.

This really undermines the entire idea of involving them. Plus, those small mistakes and ‘ut-ohs’ will be priceless to you as your children become older.

-Try to have everything ready for them to work with and assemble.

This cuts down on completion time that is really helpful when you are working with smaller children’s short attention spans.

-Finally, patience is the key to both of you enjoying yourselves and creating an addition to your scrapbook that you will most certainly treasure for years to come.

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