Scrap Booking Your Kids Birthday Party Memories

Scrapbooking is basically putting together a fancy photo album that tells a story. Put in photos, invitations, stickers, small (hopefully flat) momentos like menus, deflated balloons, or other bits and pieces that bring up memories of the event.

You don't have to be overly artistic to put a scrapbook together. And your child doesn't have to be wild about arts and crafts. The basics will do. Put the photos and the invitation in an album, write under each photo so that years from now you'll remember who the kid with the big ears was.

To make the best possible scrapbook for your birthday child... you may want to include some of the following ideas...

Be sure to take a group shot of all of the party guests...

Take individual photos of the party guests...either alone, or with the birthday child

Maybe even create a backdrop to photograph everyone in front of...
for example.. if you are throwing a party with an island theme... take the photo in front of a palm tree, surf board or ocean scene

If the cake is in keeping with the party theme.. photograph it... and don't forget to get a shot of the birthday child blowing out the candles

Find stickers and colored paper in keeping with the party theme

Don't forget to include a copy of the invitation! Especially if you made it yourself

And most important....Label all photos...so you will always remember who was there for your child's special day

You can make this as simple or as elaborate as you want...

Album-
They make lovely albums designed for scrap booking, and we've used them with much success
We've also used 3 ring binders, filled with sleeve covered 8 x11 paper.
My husband's favorite was one the kids made of a camping trip using a report cover held together with brads....

Photos

Paper
they have special papers that fit the sleeves, or you can use regular paper
colored paper

assorted other stuff
stickers
stamps
pens
colored pencils
glitter (gobs of glitter if you've got that kind of girlie)
brads
ribbon
glue
tape
clear bags (to hold bits and pieces that can't be glued, like beach sand)

If you and your child are really in to scrapbooking, you may want to consider a Scrapbooking Birthday Party.

There are a few different ways you can do this..

One way is to ask all of the guests to bring photos along that they want to make into a scrapbook page. These should be photos of themselves, maybe at a few different ages, and perhaps some with the birthday child. It would be best if these photos are copies. Assemble all your scrapbooking supplies... and let each guest create a page for the birthday child. Bind them all together into one large book for the birthday child to keep.

Another way is to ask guests to bring their photos, and maybe even some scrapbooking supplies. Everyone works on their own pages, trading stickers, cutters and paper. Each guest takes home their own pages at the end of the party.