Back to School Scrapbooking Ideas: 6 Tips to Capture School Memories
School scrapbooking albums usually include pictures of a child’s first day of school for each grade level, but there’s so much more to our back-to-school memories.Why not scrapbook a few pages that reflect the memories and feelings of back to school season? Get your camera and your scrapbooking supplies ready, and try these school scrapbooking ideas.
Shopping for New School Clothes
This is a ritual of the new school year.We all take our kids to shop for back to school clothes. This year, take your camera along for the trip, and not only will you capture some fun pictures of your children shopping, but you’ll record the current fashions trends of that year. Be sure to include the good, the bad and the ugly of this year’s fashions. Even if you have a less than enthusiastic shopper, it’s a back-to-school tradition that should be part of any school scrapbook.
School Registration
Another familiar back to school event is waiting in line for your child’s class schedule and new textbooks. If your child is young or this is a new school for him, take some pictures of his first impressions of the new school year. Older children may not welcome photos during school registration, but you can still scrapbook their class assignment schedule after they no longer need it, or a picture of the stack of textbooks may make a nice addition to a school page layout. Registration is also a great time to snap a photo of the school building for a school scrapbooking album.
Hopes for the Coming School Year
Have your children write down what they hope to learn in the coming school year. Ask them how they see themselves at the end of the year, and what they are most looking forward to at this grade level. Maybe they are looking forward to learning how to read or long division or maybe just making new friends. You can include these thoughts in a scrapbooking page.Use each child’s own handwriting to make it more personal.
First Day of School
So much is going on during the morning of the first day of school. When you take a photograph of your children in their new clothes with new backpacks, pick the same place each year to take the photo.Pick the same location with the same background so you get a better idea how they have grown over the years.
The School Bus
If your kids take a school bus, a nice moment to document is leaving on the bus on the first day of class. Take one photo of your children entering the bus, and then try to take one of them waving from the windows.
Reuniting with Friends
Part of the fun of the back-to-school season is reuniting with old school friends.Take pictures of these moments in front of the school or at the school bus stop. Remember to be sensitive to older children who many not want photos taken during this time.
The back-to-school season is full of traditions and rituals. You’ll definitely want to document them in a school scrapbook album. Whether you choose to create one scrapbook that includes all of your children or an album for each child, these tips will give you lots of ideas to fill up those pages.
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