Having children in elementary school you know how much they change as they go through school. These are also important years for your child. To keep all the memories and to record how much your children grow you may want to think about doing an elementary school book. This is the perfect place to keep all the important life changes your child will grow through and then be able to look back on them.

First you will need to find an album that has many pages for the elementary school years starting with kindergarten. You will want enough pages for every year of elementary and more pages to record things that happen during the elementary years. You need to have plenty of space to include any awards and report cards to display on the pages. Look for scrapbooks that have more of a library type of feel or look about them.

Things you may want to include in your child’s elementary school book will include:

    The first day they go to school of each year. Pictures of them getting ready to go then pictures of them at school. You will also want to include the last day of the year to show the physical changes your child has made through the school year. Try to take these in the same place if you can it makes for easy reference.
    Record the date they begin school, the name of the school and what city the school is in. This can be done on a clip art of a school or as a journaling page.
    Get a picture of your child and their teacher to put on the pages, include the teacher’s name.
    You can journal or have your child journal things that they are looking forward to each new grade. At the end of the year you can journal again on the things that they are happy to have learned.
   Include class pictures and individual pictures in the scrapbook.
    Add pictures of other friends your child makes each year. You can even journal what makes them friends or game they play.     Any holiday programs or other special performances that your child is involved in you will want to include in your scrapbook. Record the date and what the program was for. Take plenty of pictures to add to the pages.
    For all of those lost teeth use a clip art of a tooth to add the date the tooth was lost and what the tooth fairy brought.
    Awards or special certificates you child receives should also be included. Attach pictures of your child receiving them.
    You can add all the report cards your child brings home or just the last one from the year. These ones usually show the full years grades.
   Field trips your child went to throughout the school year.
    Parties the class has throughout the year for the holidays. The dates and plenty of pictures.
   Do some of your own journaling on how proud you are of watching your child grow up. How much they change through the year and what you look forward to for the coming year.
   Don’t forget to add some of the things they have learned throughout the year. This is great for the first book read or first science experiments.
   Funny sayings or things they did in that grade level.

Remember to take plenty of pictures for the full school year. In scrapbooking it is better to have too many choices then not enough. Take the time to record each year so that it is a great memory when your child looks back on it.

Posted by Don under Scrapbook Embellishments , Scrapbook Techniques on Fri 14 Mar 2008