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Do-it-yourself Scrapbook Kit
Fun projects that your child will cherish for years from FamilyFun magazine
Scrapbooking has become a fine art, and it can be hard to share creative control with glue-wielding children. Our solution? Give them a basket full of their own supplies and leave them alone. That's what we did, and nine-year-old Emma Jenkins-Sullivan and ten-year-old Lonnie Freeman proved our point perfectly. Unedited, the unique sensibility of each child shines through with incredible charm. On a page of her book titled "Tooth Operation," for example, Emma reinforces her description of a painful extraction with the offending molars themselves, three of them, taped right to the page. Lonnie's "Close Encounter of Third Kind" captures his fascination with extraterrestrials. "I don't know," Lonnie says. "I mean, it does sound a little weird that we're the only ones in the whole galaxy. We haven't even been to all the planets yet."
ASSEMBLE THE KIT
Acid-free materials promise not to fade or crumble, but we let our kids add all kinds of nonregulation items; we figure they'll last long enough. Start the kit with a blank book (we chose fairly simple ones with plain, sturdy pages), scissors, a pen, and a glue stick. You might also include:
Double-sided tape
Photo corners
Discarded family photos to cut up and glue
Crayons, colored pencils, or thin markers
Rubber stamps (a set of letters is a worthy splurge) and ink pads
Decorative-edge scissors
Glitter, stickers, colored papers, and other decorative elements
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