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Children's stories and scrapbooking... who would have thought they went so good together?
Kids are always telling stories and I would venture to guess that you are always telling your kids bedtime stories. Why not capture some of them in a storybook scrapbook?
You may even find that creating the story book scrapbook together with your kids will bring you closer than you ever knew possible. Besides helping them to express their emotions and capture their memories for the future... it lets you teach them life's little lessons with the stories of your life.
Here's a few "Storybook Scrapbook" ideas that you and your child can start with:
A) Custom Version of their Favorite Children's Book
Yes, it's plagiarism, but as long as it's for your personal use and not sold or freely distributed, there is nothing wrong with getting started this way.
After all, that's how story telling got started. One person recounted or made up a story and it was then customized and retold by others for generations.
All you need to do to turn the children's story book into your own personal story book scrapbook is to change the names so that your child and his/her friends and family become the characters'. Then add photos of your child and his friends acting out the parts or use photographs you took while they were doing the same things.
For example: If the children's story book is about a trip to grandma's house, then use images you took on your last family visit to grandma's and use your families names as the characters in the book.
B) Children's Trip Book
The next time you take a trip to the Zoo or your child goes on a field trip to the fire house... or any place they feel is fun; go along and take lots of photos.
When you get home (or no later than a day or two) record your child telling the story of what they did and what they saw. Transcribe the story and add the photo's for an instant storybook scrapbook treasure.
You could even use the sound track and the still and/or video images to create the child's story on CD video or DVD.
C) Playground Monsters and Pirates
Take your child to the playground and get lots of photos of them climbing, sliding, swinging and just having fun.
While you are there or after you get home, make up stories with your child about the monsters they are escaping from or the Pirates that they are fending off. Take notes for each image and lay them out in a little story line.
Now, by hand or (even easier) using digital scrapbook techniques, add the monsters, pirates, whales or what ever they imagined into the images and fill in the whole story line.
Before you know it, you have your child's very first custom story book scrapbook.
D) Story of Children's Dreams
Children have an amazing ability to daydream, imagine and to dream really big! Encourage your child to explore all the different possibilities of life and their fantasy worlds. Take the time to record and transcribe these dreams and stories.
User your imaginations to help your child create the pictures that go with these stories and dreams. Digital scrapbook software can work wonders for this.
Whether you act out the stories and take photos or use photographic images of your child's past that you then edit digitally to come up with the graphic parts of the story. The one thing that will be certain is that you'll have one amazing story book scrapbook that you and your child will love reading for generations to come.
These are but a few of the common themes you and your kids can start with.
Once you get started, you'll find new ideas and stories poping up everywhere.
Enjoy and preserve your children's fantasy life while you can... they grow up and it disappears into history all too fast!
Wes Waddell is Co-owner of Cookbook4Kids.com and TwasTheNightScrapbook.com - the first storybook scrapbook digital download on the Internet. Now you can make your families most treasured memories a part of the story.
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